Journal reporter Susan Stiger says the demolition of the smokestacks went off without a hitch and that it was quite a site.

The stacks didn't "implode" like you see so many buildings come down, but more like a tree falling.  "It went over like a young tree, maybe," she said. "It kinda bent in the middle."

The impact caused quite a rumble, she said. But the dust wasn't much of an issue, as had been the fear.

The crowd, she said, was quite sentimental over the loss of one of the area's landmarks.

 Read more about it in Wednesday's Journal.

Here is the Associated Press story covering today's razing of the Hurley smokestacks.

Here's an earlier story from a smokestack demolition at Playas 

The small town of Huley is prepared to raze a pair of obsolete smokestacks later this morning.

The two stacks -- ne 625 feet, the other 500 feet -- are the last remnants of a Phelps Dodge Corp. copper smelter that closed in 2002, a victim of falling copper prices and advances in copper extraction.

The charges were placed on the two stacks Monday, said Phelps Dodge spokesman Richard Peterson. And, in the event of favorable winds Tuesday morning, the power plant sirens will blare out the countdown to demolition.

If it's too windy, Peterson said local radio stations would be advised to announce when the stacks might fall.

"We will be monitoring it on an hour-to-hour basis," he said.

If the demolition doesn't happen by sundown, officials will try again Wednesday.

Journal reporter Susan Stiger is on the scene. 

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