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Tiny Spark Can Cause a Big Fire

Wednesday, 29 July 2015 15:21

The hot and dry weather in Oxford County is the perfect recipe to create an unwanted fire

WOODSTOCK - The hot and dry weather in Oxford County is the perfect recipe to create an unwanted fire.

When the temperatures are this hot outside even the smallest spark can start a fire. Public Information Coordinator Lisa Woods tells Heart FM they are urging people to be aware of what they are doing and says cigarette butts can be a real concern right now.

"A cigarette can smolder for hours before it actually becomes a fire and when you toss it from a car you don't see where it lands, the wind can blow it, so we want to make sure people are actually putting there cigarettes out, soaking them, soaking the ashes before they discard them and just be mindful the fires out west and down in California, some of them have been started by a cigarette."

Woods says they did have a fire start in Woodstock last month on Norwich Ave because a cigarette butt was tossed out of a window and landed in a pile mulch. She notes right now they do not have any open burn bans, however they may consider one if we don't get some rain soon.

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