Some People are Brain Dead
Ok, i am so totally furious today!!!! Last night we smelt smoke inside the house and outside the house. Hubby went outside and investigated where it was coming from. Our neighbours 2 houses down have a huge firepit and burn almost every single evening. So we figured that was it.
We wake up this morning and still smelt the smoke so then we thought that there must have been a large fire somewhere and the wind was blowing it out way.
Hubby went to the dollar store to pick up some paint brushes and he met out next door neighbour who told him that they set our fence on fire overnight and didnt discover it until this morning!!!!!!!!!!! Her boyfriend smokes and was using a plastic bucket with sand in it to put out his butts, which is near our fence. Well obviously he didnt quite put out his butt because theplastic bucket caught on fire then our fence caught on fire. It was smoldering all night!!!!!!!!!!! And they didnt have the deciency to tell us this morning when they put it out what happened. I went out to their house to see how bad the damage was on their side and there are five 8 foot panels partially burnt on the bottom along with some 2 by 4's; a scorched hose. We put the fence up between the two houses for more privacy.
The boyfriend said he didnt think it was cigarette related when clearly it was because the plastic bucket was all melted on one side. What a jerk!!!!!!!! Anyway, they are replacing the burnt boards and all. But you know he could have set both houses on fire that way. This is how summer fires start: either by cigarette butts or charcoal not properly disposed of. What an idiot! His cigarette butts litter his front yard and his back yard. And they are only renting the house beside us. I want to call their landlord to tell her this. Hubby said not to bother because they signed the lease again for another year.
Anyway i called the fire department and they are sending an inspector to check things out. I want a written report of this incident just in case. and i told them i dont want to feel scared in my own home because of a careless smoker who is too lazy to take proper precautions.
