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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts) Mon May 29, 2017, 01:31 AM May 2017

Crews Making Progress On Madeville Canyon Fire near Brentwood

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Crews Making Progress On Madeville Canyon Fire near Brentwood (Original Post) yuiyoshida May 2017 OP

"Homeowner trimming brush" probably sparked the fire. Gas trimmers? Smoking FailureToCommunicate May 2017 #1

A tossed Cigarette? yuiyoshida May 2017 #2

The report said the homeowner sparked the fire. FailureToCommunicate May 2017 #3

Mandeville Canyon Blaze Sparked By Weed-Wacker Nearly Contained yuiyoshida May 2017 #4

Thought so. FailureToCommunicate May 2017 #5

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)

1. "Homeowner trimming brush" probably sparked the fire. Gas trimmers? Smoking

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Mon May 29, 2017, 03:12 PM

May 2017

while trimming? Maybe thought they could control burning a small brush pile?

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)

2. A tossed Cigarette?

Reply to FailureToCommunicate (Reply #1)

Mon May 29, 2017, 07:54 PM

May 2017

Lightning maybe.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)

3. The report said the homeowner sparked the fire.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #2)

Mon May 29, 2017, 09:55 PM

May 2017

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)

4. Mandeville Canyon Blaze Sparked By Weed-Wacker Nearly Contained

Reply to FailureToCommunicate (Reply #3)

Tue May 30, 2017, 02:03 AM

May 2017

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)

5. Thought so.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #4)

Tue May 30, 2017, 08:52 AM

May 2017

"A lawn crew employee slipped on the steep hillside, and the hot (gasoline) weed-wacker started the blaze.

Battery lawn tools are the way to go (especially in high risk areas like So Cal)

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