Watch the Iowa City Landfill Fire LIVE

By Richard Pratt, TheGazette.com

Smoke billows from a landfill cell as Iowa City firefighters and landfill employees continue to work to contain a smoldering fire of the liner system at the Iowa City Landfill on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Iowa City, Iowa. The fire started Saturday evening and is expected to burn for several days. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette-KCRG)

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By Aaron Hepker

Story Created: May 30, 2012 at 1:53 PM CDT

Story Updated: May 30, 2012 at 5:17 PM CDT

JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa - As a matter of happenstance, the Iowa Flood Center (IFC), part of the University of Iowa, is getting an up close and personal view of the smoke from the Iowa City landfill fire, via a remote camera trained on a mobile weather radar unit that was in the process of testing when the fire broke out.

The radar unit is one of four in the Iowa City-Coralville Corridor, and the camera was set up to watch how the mobile unit responds to remote commands.

View the live feed here:

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