Anybody ever try to start a fire with a cigarette? While blamed many times on cigarettes, fires along highways are usually caused by something else, chains or something metal dragging behind a vehicle is a prime culprit. Bad bearing on a semi caused 6 fires over a 3 mile distance on I-20 not long ago. Safety chains on trailers are the worst.
True story: Neighbor dumps bar-b-que ash on landscaping chips which must have had grease on them, hours later flame erupts and melts off the natural gas feed to the grill, flame shoots from the gas line and melts off the hose bib above and a geyser shoots off the side of the house.
Only damage: a nights sleep and some solder.
Wood chips near a wood structure is wrong for more than one reason.
I’ve spotted 2 fires starting here in my area in landscaping mulch.
Buts tossed along a highway usually end up in green grass or gravel.
One of the fires I put out was in front of a gas station.