Too mulch to handle

Updated at 4:30 p.m.

Boston firefighters were kept busy today putting out fires in piles of mulch across the city. Crews were dispatched to at least ten locations in Dorchester, Central Square in East Boston, the Longwood Medical Area, Mission Hill and Beacon Hill to douse burning landscaping.

Locations include: Parker Hill Avenue on Mission Hill, Brookline Avenue in the medical area (two there so far), Bennington and London streets in East Boston and Cambridge Street between the T stop and Mass. General, and in Dorchester, Codman Square, Gallivan Boulevard by Neponset Circle; Ashmont T stop, the Best Buy in South Bay; Gallivan Boulevard by the Mt. Washington Bank and Gallivan Boulevard behind St. Brendan's.

Maybe concerned citizens could use some of those cases of leftover Poland Spring to wet down their mulch. Although none of today's fires seemed to cause any damage, Punditreview reminds us that a Peabody apartment building burned to the ground last year in a fire sparked by a lit cigarette thrown in some mulch.