About fiore clean outs, trash removal,dump runs and Demolition
As autumn loosens its grip on the Pioneer Valley and the first cold drops down off the surrounding hills, the work along Springfield's brick streets turns from hauling to clearing. This is the labor of clean-outs and dump runs — the attic emptied, the cellar reclaimed, a season's accumulation loaded up and carried off — and of demolition, where a tired shed or a leaning porch comes down and leaves clean ground behind. When the first heavy sky moves in over the Connecticut River flats, the same trucks answer the snow instead, cutting a drive back to bare pavement while the City of Homes still sleeps. There is a plain satisfaction in a lot swept empty and a walk opened to the curb, in the quiet a place keeps once the weight is finally gone.