Cigarette butts are not good nesting materials
From Channel 13, WOWK in West Virginia: "Lit cigarette carried back to nest ignites blaze."
Officials in the city of Huntington and the State Fire Marshal's office said the apparent cause of last Wednesday's fire at the Ratcliff Building was a bird that carried a lit cigarette into an attic of the building and into its nest. The fire destroyed the building, which housed five businesses.
A report like this adds fuel (no pun intended) to my dislike for smokers who drop still-burning and used cigarette butts onto sidewalks, roads, beaches and other public spots.
Officials in the city of Huntington and the State Fire Marshal's office said the apparent cause of last Wednesday's fire at the Ratcliff Building was a bird that carried a lit cigarette into an attic of the building and into its nest. The fire destroyed the building, which housed five businesses.
A report like this adds fuel (no pun intended) to my dislike for smokers who drop still-burning and used cigarette butts onto sidewalks, roads, beaches and other public spots.
posted by Amy at 8:55 AM
5 Comments:
I heard this story this morning on "Bob and Tom".
They said the nest was five feet across. Is that right?
They followed it up with story about a farmer whose pigs came into his house and somehow burned the house down.
Susan, I found one article citing a 5-foot-wide nest. Yowza.
I wonder if this isn't a case of a bird "anting" using a burning cigarette. Christopher Leahy's _Companion_ notes that "an alarming side effect of certain birds' fondness for a burning sensation is a propensity for picking up flaming tinder and transporting it," including into roost sites in buildings.
Rick
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