Residents of Lilly say the smell of that burning bony pile was at its worst Tuesday and they say its unbearable.

Beverly Mandichak, a business owner near the pile says, "It was very smoky and it smelled. The smell, you could smell it strong."

Crews are separating coal from rock, trying to cool the coal and stop the burn. It began late last year after crews, constructing sewer lines outside Lilly, accidentally sparked that bony pile. Beverly says one of the biggest concerns is health.

"We're out here breathing all of this all the time. Something, if it continues like this, it'll only get worse unless there's something done about it."

However, one man living only hundreds of yards away from the bony pile says most of the time the smell is bearable.

Patrick Barlick, who lives nearby, "We've only had a few days that it got really bad. It's like that sulfur smell."

The bony pile was in Washington Township for about 80 years before the burn began. Workers say it could take close to 10 months before the coals have cooled and the smell of sulfur and rotten eggs goes away.