Fire at 6th Ave/7th St
Just woke up to the smell of burning and did a freak out search of the apartment before realizing there were some flashing lights outside. Went out to see what happened.
Like many other corners, this one had a big pile of christmas trees waiting to be picked up and someone set them on fire (outside of Kohzee Cafe) and this also et the car next to it on fire.
Luckily no injuries from what I was told, but someone's car is toast and our place smells like it might smell like smoke for a while so I'm guessing many others do as well.
Like many other corners, this one had a big pile of christmas trees waiting to be picked up and someone set them on fire (outside of Kohzee Cafe) and this also et the car next to it on fire.
Luckily no injuries from what I was told, but someone's car is toast and our place smells like it might smell like smoke for a while so I'm guessing many others do as well.
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damn I slept right through that! Its times like these that make me happy that I do NOT have a car anymore
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Holy shit, WTF is wrong with people?
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While heading home with the dog, I stopped to look at it and someone else looking said she had seen at least one other tree (on another corner) that had been burned but not to this extreme.
BTW, if you have PA plates on a volvo parked near Kohzee, um, you're car will need to be towed I think. -
I was passing by and took these photos.
What's really scary is the amount of trees piled on each other on ever corner along 7th Ave.
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yikes that was right across the street from me almost! glad it didnt spread to any of the nearby buildings.
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holy crap! I hope that they catch whoever started the fire. Stupid and dangerous thing to do.
Damn, I'd hate to go to my car and find it looking like that -
You know it was some children/punks/kids thinking this will be so funny or badass and that poor car was just a casualty
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To add insult to injury, alt side was there this morning and the car got a ticket by 9:30 am.
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Although unlikely, it's possible a person walking by flicked their cigarette ash onto the tree unconsciously. Dead christmas trees are extremely flammable (obviously.)
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Agreed--those piles are fire hazards.
The firemen and police officers were proceding as if it was intentional. I didn't push for details but they were hoping to get surveillance video from Kohzee or its atm to get images of "the suspect".
Also, there's a kid who lives near here that hangs out around there with his friends and they are often causing trouble (like shooting a bb gun at people's windows). The people at Bohdi tree (now Kohzee) told me they had to put up video surveillance b/c of that specific kid vandalizing their property. I could imagine him doing this. -
I would say the fire dept knows what they're doing and it was likely intentional. I can't see a flicked ash setting a tree in the freezing cold afire even if it is dried out. My tree is still sitting on the sidewalk. The sanitation program is a 12 day open ended thing, put it out between Jan 4-15th, nothing more specific, hence the accumulation.
I hate the idea of cameras everywhere but society has gotten to this point. People do really dumb shit and to catch this on camera, I'd be all for it.
Fortunately, dumbasses, no one was hurt. Except an innocent Volvo. -
I'm sorry for the unfortunate car owner but this is the right opportunity to push MulchFest. Best to take your trees to park to be mulched next year to avoid dangerous sidewalk bonfires.
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condoguy wrote: I'm sorry for the unfortunate car owner but this is the right opportunity to push MulchFest. Best to take your trees to park to be mulched next year to avoid dangerous sidewalk bonfires.
I never understood taking the tree to the park. Isn't it the same as leaving it on the sidewalk for sanitation to pick up and mulch? Unless you want to take the mulch home with you, why drag your tree to the park? I thought these trees met the same end no matter what. -
wow sucks for the owner and i hope they get the punk. usually punks doing something stupid.
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condoguy wrote: I'm sorry for the unfortunate car owner but this is the right opportunity to push MulchFest. Best to take your trees to park to be mulched next year to avoid dangerous sidewalk bonfires.
The trees left on the curb during the scheduled dates are supposedly taken to parks and mulched. I think the city/parks dept was who piled them up everywhere Sunday and supposedly they were planning to pick up the piles the day they were made. -
I think this is one of those Only-in-Park-Slope things. In no other neighborhood do I see piles of dead trees on the corners.
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I could be wrong, but this seems like the first time they've piled them up. In the past I thought the trees were put out in front of the home with the garbage and seemed to get picked up fairly quickly. I really don't remember these piles, which are huge and all over.
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Yes, other years they just sat in front of people's houses, why did they pile them all up on street corners this year?
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