Wouldn't notice if I were on fire

[stephbg]

I'm not sure I've mentioned it here lately but I really really hate arsonists. Nothing quite says irresponsible and dangerous to innocent bystanders' lives and properties like lighting a fire. Compared to that, shooting someone is nice and tidy and relatively restrained.

So, I was a trifle disturbed to discover that we recently escaped being crispified ourselves.



Just returned from picking Husband up from the train station and noticed that one side of a tree on our boundary was dead. We're on a corner and there's an odd little fenced strip of land to the side, and I wondered if someone had put down poison and sprayed the tree. However, when I peered through a break in the fence I saw the clear remains of a recent fire in the brush which had killed off half our tree and scorched the fence. Just below our powerline.

I must say I'm glad I found out after the event.

Comments

[redbraids.livejournal.com]

Eek! Marshmallows!

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Ah that's it, I've been buying too many marshmallows and the fire was attracted naturally. I should go back to buying chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate.

[redbraids.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm chocolate. ...

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

There have been two major fires near our place recently - one a bushfire, one a housefire which has destroyed the house - and posters offering rewards for reporting arsonists have gone up.

We later heard that the housefire was apparently not the result of arson, but was started by the house owner's two teenage sons leaving the stove on when they went out.