Repost: The fires have started up aleady for this year. Six new fires and it is only April. Felt it was time to repost this message from last year.
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Are you a smoker? Do you know a smoker? Share this with them. Here's the deal. Don't throw your cigarette butts out of your car. Don't throw them on the ground. Would you take a burning coal from a barbecue and toss it out where it can start a fire? Would you walk around dropping lit matches everywhere? You shouldn't do this any time of year but during the hot, dry weather it is critical that you don't do this. Forest fire season is in full, early swing and we are low on water. There is a large patch of burnt grass on our highway right between the lanes. Use some common sense people. Don't even get me started on the dirty mess part of this issue.
I'm with you 100%. It drives me crazy when I see people throwing butts or wrappers out their car window. So irresponsible.
ReplyDeleteThrowing cigarettes out of a car window is plain crazy especially during a hot dry spell. Littering is another of my pet peeves.
ReplyDeleteI have a picture of myself when I was a young girl on a pony that looks like the one in your picture. did you grow up in south van?
My husband grew up not far from me and I have a picture of him aged 10-11 on the same horse as my picture. There was a man that came around and took pictures of us kids on his pony then developed the film and sold the pics to our parents. That sure wouldn't happen now! I miss the good old days ! Never locked our doors, tented in the back yard, played outside til the nine o"clock gun went off in the summer. Sorry for the rambling. Heat getting to me. Thankyou
Hi Lee. Yes I did live in South Van. There wasn't an email address to email back to you.
ReplyDeleteThe poor pony sure made the rounds didn't he.
Thank you. Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteBut, I think that people who throw cigarette butts out of car windows are a lost cause. I don't think anything we say will change them. It disgusts me. All littering disgusts me. Littering people must think that what they toss out vaporizes!! Really!! What do they think is going to happen to their garbage when they toss it. I'm beyond angry over this topic.
Well said!!! We have a hedge behind our place, that faces a highway. Lots of traffic - and lots of watering happening right now to protect that hedge (and our houses) from the possibility of a lit cigarette.
ReplyDeletePerfect timing Lori, it's so dry here, and so many fires have been started by butts that our resources are being overwhelmed by them.
ReplyDeleteEven in our rural subdivision there are people seeing smoking butts on the roadside, burning away...it's tinder dry here. We've had one house burn down last summer, I sincerely hope no others do too.
Jen
I recall a person, a couple years ago, stubbing out a butt in a planter next to a building entrance, which in less than 4 minutes started the building on fire. Lucky, someone grabbed a fire extinguisher.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it's so easy to define 'stupid' when it comes to careless smokers.
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