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Another sure sign of spring: Our first major brush fire
By adamg on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 2:20pm
Boston firefighters are in Stony Brook Reservation on the West Roxbury end battling a three-alarm brush fire. Jan watched the rising smoke from the Hancock building in the Back Bay.
Stony Brook is one of three areas in Boston particularly prone to brush fires - the other two being the marshes along the Neponset River in Dorchester and the Back Bay Fens along the Muddy River.
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Weatherbug was right
I got an alert this morning saying that the conditions for a fire were high. Considering that it rained some yesterday, I was skeptical, but I guess I shouldn't have been.
there are a number...
...of camps in the woods there. Or a cigarette..
Yup. Smokers throw their
Yup. Smokers throw their flaming garbage on the ground multiple times per day and then let other people deal with it.
dried out mulch
I discovered a tiny mulch fire at the fresh pond shopping plaza today. A few kicks of dirt quelled it.
Everything seems pretty dry, except for those lingering snow banks.
Careful where you throw those cigarette butts!
yup
I now get the notices from our building management at work.. and I had to forward a memo about cigarette butts and mulch. Apparently we had a problem last year with this.
(and so did Market Basket in Chelsea.. so much so CFD told DSM to change the mulch out with something else)
Smokers, take responsibility
These fires most often start with a cigarette butt, carelessly disposed of -- and let's be honest, they're almost all carelessly disposed of. I know exactly one smoker who disposes of his butts in a responsible fashion. He extinguishes them, then places them in a small metal box he carries around for that purpose. He does not simply toss them somewhere. I do not know of one single other smoker who has the decency to do that.
Smokers, stop throwing your butts. Just stop it. It's a dirty, disgusting, selfish habit in the best of circumstances, and at times like these it's dangerous as well. Take responsibility for your trash.