When your biggest fire in quite awhile is in a dumpster, things are going well on the fire prevention side of things. Last night the "West District" stations responded to a fire in a dumpster. The dumpster was fairly close to the house that was being remodeled, but there wasn't an immediate danger of the fire spreading. While these fires are usually fairly routine, you never know what might be in there burning, so caution is always the watch word.
This fire went out smoothly and there was nothing that points to arson as the cause.
My hope is the rest of the year is equally quiet and we have another low fire loss figure to report. We continue to ficus our fire prevention efforts on causes that we have seen in the past and keep fire losses minimal.
Below is a picture of three firefighters lifting the hose up and into the [...]
Original post by George Esbensen and software by Elliott Back
