what the hell is going on wheres that smoke smell coming from next thing I hear is FIRE! I run outside to find the mulch used around the store to landscape it on fire and flaming . Luckily he already had a hose hooked up and filling one of the outside display pools and we quickly put out the fire.
After examining the area we found several discarded cigarette butts laying in the mulch this despite the fact there are No Smoking signs posted and buckets filled with sand to dispose of your cigarette butts are at each door.
The only customer to store at that time had been there approx. 2 hours before I arrived and it took that long till the butt not totally out heated up from being feed oxygen from the brisk breeze on Saturday.
This could have resulted in the loss of the store had we not been there and it flamed up.
I soaked the hill side down to make sure there where no further problems and we pulled out all of the butts.
The temps where in the high 80's that day and conditions where just right for this fire to happen.
Needless to sat Buck is pulling out the much and replacing it with gravel. to prevent future problems.
Yes mulch is a nice landscaping material but as this fire shows use good judgement where you place it to prevent a flare up if some one drops a discarded butt into it.
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