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So you know how the fire department's always telling you not to use a charcoal grill on a wooden porch?
By adamg on Thu, 07/03/2014 - 10:33am
Firefighters responded this morning to 807 Centre St., in Jamaica Plain, where they kept a small porch fire apparently caused by dying embers from a grill from becoming a large porch fire.
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Pick any neighborhood in the city and you will find this. It's pretty selfish. That is in the fire code for a very good reason. As you just read.
Everyone does this
Everyone.. Everywhere.
And folks won't stop until something bad happens to them. That's how I learned. When I lived in Porter Square, the upstairs neighbor did. Caught the deck on fire. Thankfully the FD came before it could spread to the main structure.
Grew up there....
807 is an apartment building. No yard at all.
I must confess to burning a hole in the porch of my cottage in Yarmouth doing the same stupid thing. The habachi fell over durning the night......
Not even in the rear?
That's where the porch supposedly was.
I remember looking at renting
I remember looking at renting there and it did have a small porch in back but no yard where you could have grilled safely. (I grew up on Holbrook St)
Shouldn't need a fire code to know this
Hot fiery stuff + wood = fire!
My apartment hunting checklist
One of the things on my checklist for whenever I'm apartment hunting is to check the decks to see if I see grills. If I do, I automatically eliminate the apartment from consideration. I don't need the tsuris.
widespread
I recently noticed the neighboring building barbecuing from a wood balcony. Then I noticed that 50% of their wood balconies had barbecues I could see.
It's an apartment building, I think including some Section 8 units and at least one crazy old lady. I don't know anyone there, and I didn't want to introduce myself by telling them that they can't improve their overpriced dump apartment lifestyle by barbecuing in the summer. So I cowardly printed out the web page from the PD that said not to barbecue from balconies, and taped it to their front door, under the cover of darkness.
Love it
Ur precious.