Increase in Smoking Related Fires

Residents need to exercise caution

NEWS RELEASE - Distributed May 7, 2015 3:42 PM

Summary

Fire Investigators would like to remind residents to ensure smoking materials are extinguished completely and discarded in a proper container. With the warmer weather on its way and very little rain over the past month, Nanaimo Fire Rescue has been called out to several small bark mulch fires due to poorly discarded smoking materials. Another common cause of serious fires at homes, is smoking materials extinguished in potted plants on sundecks or near homes where fire easily spreads to the house.

In addition to ensuring smoking materials are properly discarded at home, residents are urged to not throw cigarettes out the car window.

Link to Strategic Plan: The City of Nanaimo is committed to Public Safety.

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