Page 7 | To think my neighbour is selfish tw*t for lighting a fire

Summersorcherisjustsummer · 15/08/2026 14:57

Singlemumsurvivor · 15/08/2026 14:20

I worked in the fire service control room for 20 years. ALWAYS call the fire brigade to report a fire. If you call the police they will call the fire brigade and all you’ve done is delay the reporting. In busy times which we call spate conditions calls are prioritised and others are queued. The caller would be questioned to determine the risk. They may send an officer out to assess or an appliance. Please never think because they are busy you won’t call and add to that burden. Fire can and does spread really quickly. We had a call to a garden fire which was 2 minutes from the fire station. By the time the appliance had arrived it had spread to the fence, the shed and then the roof of the house. What started as a one appliance incident that would have been dealt with in minutes ended up being a lengthy incident involving multiple appliances and officers.

That's makes sense, in these extreme and exceptional conditions one wonders ...

BurntBroccoli · 15/08/2026 15:04

AInightingale · 14/08/2026 23:49

Just out of curiosity, I searched for the term 'fire pit' on X tonight and it brought up loads of tweets from men (nearly all seemed men) hurling abuse at Andy Burnham and ranting about not being told what to do by 'leftists' and that they'll be lighting their firepits and barbecues and having bonfires every night in defiance of the ban. Just seems that a vast swathe of the UK population seems recently to have acquired the mentality of the worst type of knuckle-dragging Ulster loyalist.

I bet they all voted Brexit, are climate change deniers and believe in the Covid vaccine conspiracy. Probably have AI pictures of lions on their profile pics and are very “patriotic”.

BurntBroccoli · 15/08/2026 15:05

pigsDOfly · 14/08/2026 23:56

Just seen on the town's main face book page someone is having fireworks tomorrow night.

Just what we need, when we haven't had rain for weeks and weeks and the place is like a tinder box, is things being set alight and flying off into the air.

I feel fortunate that this is happening in the part of the town furthest away from where I live.

Obviously, feel very sorry for this person's poor neighbours.

I would seriously report that on 101… that’s how the moorland fires near Manchester started.

BurntBroccoli · 15/08/2026 15:07

CallUpMyMamaSaidImInLoveWithTheStripperYo · 15/08/2026 00:42

God don’t some people just love a wee opportunity to snoop and tell on others. Not saying he should have lit a fucking fire but I bet some of the Covid curtain twitchers on here will be rubbing their hands with glee

Summersorcherisjustsummer · 15/08/2026 15:40

@AInightingale @BurntBroccoli you must have that on your algorythim ?

Portmore · 15/08/2026 15:43

Justthethingsthatyoudointhisgarden · 15/08/2026 14:30

I'd be sending those photos to 101

Please don't call 101. It is putting pressure on their services.

I've spent an hour on hold to 101 this morning for something urgent but non emergency. The call taker apologized for the delay & said they were under immense pressure due to the nuisance calls about people having bbq's

They cannot do anything as it is not an offence.

If it is spreading out of control or an emergency then call 999 for fire brigade

To think my neighbour is selfish tw*t for lighting a fire

Summersorcherisjustsummer · 15/08/2026 15:59

Nuisance calls ! Of terrified people who don't want their homes to burn down !

Maybe Burnham and the fire brigade should have anticipated this first and sent out Clearer messaging

gratefulandgrumpy · 15/08/2026 16:55

Gettingbysomehow · 14/08/2026 22:26

I would have put it out with my hose and called the police. What a twat.

I bet you’d have got a fine for using the hose, and he’d have got a stern shake of the finger.

NoisyMonster678 · 15/08/2026 17:00

Report him to the council but gake photos as proof, for evidence. He is a trollope

Busbygirl · 15/08/2026 17:32

I didn’t get the alert.
Did it say it’s against the law to have a BBQ?
I’m meant to be going to my friends tonight for one. If it’s illegal I’m not going, I don't want the police turning up.

MMUmum · 15/08/2026 18:21

Vicksstick · 14/08/2026 22:21

Ok so how many people, after receiving a government alert about wild fires asking them not to have fires in their garden, would then in fact go against that and light a big F off fire in their garden, well that would be my next door neighbour! We all live in close proximity in terraced houses and my neighbour thinks it’s a good idea to light a fire. The fact the fire is (for now) contained in a make shift fire pit makes no difference, I mean it’s twa**ish behaviour right?

Yup!! Same fir people round here using hosepipes to wash their cars. Just because we haven't had a hosepipe ban..... yet!

Islandlover · 15/08/2026 18:38

I was on a steam train last week and one spark from it ignited a full field and more before the emergency services could put it out.

Glitchymn1 · 15/08/2026 18:39

Why are people lighting them? It’s like 100 degrees! FFS

Queenncat · 15/08/2026 19:05

XenoBitch · 14/08/2026 23:20

IQ test is just a test of an IQ test. Nothing to do with common sense.
Some very highly educated people with high IQ are thick as fuck.

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That maybe so - but most of those with low IQs are almost always thick as fck

EdwardNigma · 15/08/2026 19:10

Vicksstick · 14/08/2026 22:21

Ok so how many people, after receiving a government alert about wild fires asking them not to have fires in their garden, would then in fact go against that and light a big F off fire in their garden, well that would be my next door neighbour! We all live in close proximity in terraced houses and my neighbour thinks it’s a good idea to light a fire. The fact the fire is (for now) contained in a make shift fire pit makes no difference, I mean it’s twa**ish behaviour right?

Your neighbour is a cunt. The BBC right now has articles about wildfires destroying people's homes. It's a real risk.

Khayker · 15/08/2026 20:15

Come to Wales, neighbours are still out burning rubbish and teenagers out setting fireworks off. They just look at you like you're talking a foreign language when asked why they're doing it. Fires have died down today, but the idiot count is no different to yesterday, still high!!

MachineBee · 15/08/2026 20:27

Slightly off topic, but I shocked to see bbq charcoal still on sale this morning in Tesco. And it was around a mile away from a house that burned down due to suspected bbq that spread. OP, YANBU

Realworld10 · 15/08/2026 20:31

Get Alexander to shout out the alert at full volume!

Periperi2025 · 15/08/2026 21:35

Summersorcherisjustsummer · 14/08/2026 23:24

Is this true and if so I don't think this has been communicated clearly

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In UK law, "extreme negligence" that causes a fire is not treated as simple carelessness; it is prosecuted as arson (if reckless) under the criminal damage Act 1971 or as gross negligence manslaughter if the fire results in a fatality.

Under UK criminal law, arson does not require a deliberate intent to burn down a property; recklessness is sufficient to satisfy the legal threshold.

So already a thing in UK law, and after that alert nobody can claim they didn't think it was a risk. It will be interesting to see what charges they go for as they start to make arrests.

I saw it discussed with regards to the Rhinogs fire, since the person who caused it called it in themselves, whether they could/ should still be arrested.

Redragtoabull · 15/08/2026 21:52

Obviously doesn't like being told what to do so has had to play big man to let all know he can do WTF he likes, bet he did well at school

Summersorcherisjustsummer · 15/08/2026 22:44

@Periperi2025 I didn't know that re recklessness so I think that needs to be communicated clearly

Summersorcherisjustsummer · 15/08/2026 22:45

Khayker · 15/08/2026 20:15

Come to Wales, neighbours are still out burning rubbish and teenagers out setting fireworks off. They just look at you like you're talking a foreign language when asked why they're doing it. Fires have died down today, but the idiot count is no different to yesterday, still high!!

How odd ? Whats going on there ?

Periperi2025 · 15/08/2026 22:47

Khayker · 15/08/2026 20:15

Come to Wales, neighbours are still out burning rubbish and teenagers out setting fireworks off. They just look at you like you're talking a foreign language when asked why they're doing it. Fires have died down today, but the idiot count is no different to yesterday, still high!!

In their defence they probably couldn't read the alert like 90% of the the population when it was first sent out!!

Periperi2025 · 15/08/2026 22:52

Summersorcherisjustsummer · 15/08/2026 22:45

How odd ? Whats going on there ?

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National pass time.

One of my brothers mates who grew up in the valleys, set the hillside on fire when he was about 11. Things escalated and it burnt out the electricity substation for his entire village, sensing that he was really in the shit, he paniked and ran away, hiding overnight. So what started as 'just' a wildfire turned into a simulatanous wildfire, large scale power outage and missing child alert!!

Gettingbysomehow · 15/08/2026 23:48

gratefulandgrumpy · 15/08/2026 16:55

I bet you’d have got a fine for using the hose, and he’d have got a stern shake of the finger.

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Its fine I have a blue badge so Im allowed to use the hose 😅
Id probably have been arrested for assault though 😑