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General => The Shed => Topic started by: BarriedaleNick on April 16, 2012, 16:11:06

Title: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: BarriedaleNick on April 16, 2012, 16:11:06
Fire was out of control with no water on hand.  No one was hurt in teh taking of these photos!!

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Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: ACE on April 16, 2012, 16:13:04
One way of getting your plot watered if you have a hosepipe ban.
Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: Kea on April 16, 2012, 17:16:14
i am fed up with people on our site who light bonfires then leave them unattended...go home in fact. We have such a low rainfall it's only a matter of time before the whole site burns. This sort of fire is potentially dangerous to the firemen putting it out and anyway who might get trapped if the fire got out of control aside from any damage to sheds or plots.
Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: bridgehouse on April 16, 2012, 18:17:58
my goodness me that is some fire, and who know's what was in the shed.
good job no one was injured.
   June.
Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: Poolcue on April 16, 2012, 18:59:01
Our council have banned bonfires from April to October.
Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: banksy on April 16, 2012, 19:16:56
Fires not allowed on our site thank goodness....  ;D
Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: brownowl23 on April 16, 2012, 21:18:31
 I am hoping that wasnt your plot nick.

weve oonly ever had one fire on ours a few weeks ago and it has to be kept small and under control as our boys are always with us at weekends.

Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: Mrs Ava on April 16, 2012, 23:22:32
That was some bonfire!!  Only a couple of chaps have fires on our site, thankfully, and they do wander off home leaving them.  There was an incident a few years ago where the fire moved underground and caught on another plot several plots away.  Eeek!
Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: powerspade on April 17, 2012, 06:05:45
I very rarely light a fire on my plot when I do its to burn perennial weeds and couch grass I never leave the plot with the fire still burning or even smouldering that's why when I get home I smell like a smoked kipper
Title: Re: This is why you keep your fire under control
Post by: BarriedaleNick on April 17, 2012, 07:37:52
Not my plot or shed and it happened a month or so back.  The shed was really old and the timber dry and brittle - frankly I'm surprised there was anything for the FB to put out..
It was one of our old boys who should have known better!