Cigarette Starts Pile of Mattresses on Fire
Press release from Humboldt Bay Fire:
On April 19th, 2019 Humboldt Bay Fire responded to report of a mattress fire against the exterior of Serenity Inn at 2019 Broadway St.
It appears that a discarded cigarette lit a pile of 6 mattresses stacked in the breezeway.
Thankfully, a bystander noticed the smoke and called it in quickly.
Humboldt Bay Fire initially responded with 4 Fire Engines, One Ladder Truck, One Command Staff, and One Public Information Officer, before response was
reduced to one Fire Engine.There were no injuries, and no damages beyond the discarded mattresses and light scorching to the outside of the building.
Humboldt Bay Fire would like to remind the community how important it is to properly dispose of cigarettes. Cigarette fires cause close to 1,000 deaths and
3,000 injuries each year in the United States, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
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Are you kidding me?Tell us how you spend the insurance money
New mattresses, thank you very much.
Mattresses at serenity inn. That’s straight bio hazard. Needles,blood ,vomit, crack dust,rat turds , cockroaches etc. nasty!
As if junkies give a shit what their butts set on fire. Really!
How do we know that’s what really happened?!
He doesn’t, but since people who smoke are basically performing slow motion suicide, most of them don’t give a damn about anyone or anything else.
That’s just plain mean. Slow motion suicide is much more user friendly.
yet only 30 percent of smokers get cancer ……. but hey why not feed the fear. just as with gun crime right ? more likely to die from botched medicine than get shot and die in america but hey lets ban guns because if it saves one life … yet we control how many miles /hours a truck driver can be on the road yet no regulations for how many people a doctor can see ina day or how long they can work each day ….. kind of makes one wonder.
If I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times, “Don’t smoke in bed.”
🕯It was probably one of those workers working on that street next to the Inn.
The Earth makes a lousy ashtray.
🕯I still think it was them dudes working on that street next to Serenity.
Mmmkay, thanks.