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Much to my dismay, I see my neighbor has placed a metal fire pit in a pine straw mulched area right up against multi-thousand acres of dense woods. Needless to say if one burning ember touches the pine straw it is going to go up like an inferno.
Is there any local restrictions preventing such stupidity? They don't see a problem with it.
Maybe they are using it as a decorative element, without intending to use it for fires.
I think most people don't realize how risky real fires can be. My mom once cleaned out the ash from her living room fireplace, at least a day after her last fire, and spread the ashes along a flower bed as a way to change the pH. Unfortunately, the flower bed was alongside a wooden post fence, .... that caught fire!
Fortunately, she saw it, and was able to put it out with her hose. But she was shocked as she had spread the ashes and had not noticed any big or hot coals.
If you are worried, I'd surf to find news articles from a few months ago about the apartment complexes that had fires that spread via the straw near their buildings. Print it out and leave it folded into their door.
My neighbors cut down an entire pine forest separating our house from theirs, creating a huge fire hazard (once the pine needles dried out). Across the street, another set of neighbors decided to burn a pile of branches that got out of hand, and someone (not me) called it in. I got home to find a couple of fire trucks in the road, so I asked one of the firemen if there was anything I could do about the fire hazard down the hill. Nope. Either a fireman or law enforcement officer would actually have to see the FIRE BEING SET before they could do anything. So basically, we're all screwed.
Every town in the triangle now has ordinances against using pine straw within a certain distance of a structure. Perhaps the fire pit counts as a structure? I would call the inspections department and rat them out.
Every town in the triangle now has ordinances against using pine straw within a certain distance of a structure. Perhaps the fire pit counts as a structure? I would call the inspections department and rat them out.
Those ordinance usually don't apply to single family homes, much less a fire pit.
Just curious - where around here is "multi-thousand acres of dense woods" ?
In the Bonsal area
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