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American Legion Highway's giant mound o' mulch catches fire early this year
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Two mulch piles, one highway.
Two mulch piles, one highway. There's another ginormous pile near the intersection of American Legion Highway and Canterbury Street off of Morton Street.
You know it’s spring ….
…. when you start gagging on mulch fumes every time you pass a commercially landscaped dead zone.
I wonder if this was the cause of the noxious smoke that inundated parts of the South End this afternoon.
Car fire
That was a car fire on the Express Way opposite The Pine Street Inn.
Thanks.
That was were I estimated it was coming from before reading about the mulch fires.
The burning tires and plastics was enough to send people out of the area.
Why don’t they just have an
Why don’t they just have an irrigation system on it daily to keep it some what moist?
Moistness is part of the problem
Moistness is actually part of the problem when it comes to these industrial-scale operations.
In very thick piles, catching fire isn't a result of drying out - it is the result of such robust microbial activity that it heats to the point of catching fire. This is a spontaneous combustion issue.
Dryness leading to fires is an issue where there is a thin layer of mulch in careless smoker habitats.
So like compost on steroids?
So like compost on steroids? Is there any concern a normal compost pile is going to combust??