Mt. Mulchmore, the giant pile o' mulch at the Landscape Express yard at 425 American Legion Highway that periodically bursts into flames, burst into flames again last night, Live Boston News reports (with some mulch-fire suppression photos). Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 10:14am
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By adamg - Sun, 04/09/2023 - 10:08pm
Mt. Mulchmore, Landscape Express's mulch mountain at 425 American Legion Highway in Mattapan, caught fire this afternoon, the Boston Fire Department reports. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 09/19/2020 - 6:11pm
Boston firefighters are currently at Landscape Express at 415 American Legion Highway, where its landmark mulch pile has caught fire. A ladder truck has been brought in to try to spray it down from the top; the company has been asked to send somebody in with a front-end loader because Mt. Mulchmore will need to be taken apart to get to the inner flames. Also, engine trucks have to line up to relay water from a hydrant; the pile itself has no nearby hydrants.
By adamg - Thu, 09/22/2016 - 9:05am
The Bulletin reports on what has now become the annual fire at the giant pile of mulch at Landscape Express on American Legion Highway in Mattapan.
By adamg - Sat, 07/26/2014 - 9:03am
Around 3:45 a.m. at 285 Beacon St., Stanley Staco reports. Firefighters made short work of the mulch.
By adamg - Thu, 04/24/2014 - 6:19pm
The Chelsea Fire Department reports it's ordered the local Market Basket to get rid of that damned mulch that keeps catching on fire.
Fire detail ordered again at Market Basket for multiple outside fires today. We ordered them to remove the mulch. Some has been removed, they are working on the rest.
Firefighters had to repeatedly respond to the same store last week for repeated mulch fires.
By adamg - Mon, 04/14/2014 - 7:09pm
The Chelsea Fire Department reports:
Fire Detail now in place at the Market Basket after 8 mulch fires in last few hours.
By adamg - Fri, 09/07/2012 - 5:53pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a Concord company's First Amendment rights weren't violated just because its landlord tried to evict it for non-payment of rent while it was negotiating with the town over getting rid of "85,000 yards of unscr
By adamg - Mon, 05/16/2011 - 11:05am
Jeff Egnaczyk begs of his hometown:
Brookline, can you chill OUT with the scented mulch. Why must a wood chip be scented?
By adamg - Mon, 01/24/2011 - 2:07pm
In case you need more proof that mulch is evil, AlertNewEngland reports a mulch pile trapped a man in Bellingham this afternoon.
By adamg - Sun, 06/20/2010 - 6:07pm
By adamg - Tue, 05/18/2010 - 2:41pm
The Globe reports a truck full of mulch overturned on 128 north in Waltham this afternoon, sending mulch flying everywhere and narrowing the road to just one lane.
By adamg - Thu, 05/06/2010 - 2:05pm
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.
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