Apartment Fires

[Brad]

For the third time in 14 months, the Hillsborough Apartment Complex is on fire... First two were from Cigarettes.

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[jessep28]

Judging by the damage, I'd bet that discarded smoking materials is the cause of this is one as well.

[Seth]

Does something about this place attract careless smokers?

[nativeomahan]

More than belatedly, this complex has now banned smoking in and around all buildings. I'm not sure why it didn't do that a year ago. My mother's complex went non smoking about 10 years ago.

[bbinks]

I'm not disregarding the smoking theory, but many apartments still have smoking, and have not had fires. They must have bad luck or the most irresponsible smokers. I am surprised that it is not a fire code as to not allow smoking in the first place in multi-unit complexes.

[BRoss]

I know someone that just recently moved out. She said these apartments are horribly built and was not surprised how quickly they burnt down

[Brad]

Looks like yet another Apartment Fire started on a Deck....

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Just a wild guess, but I bet they weren't BBQ-ing at 9:30 am in February.

[Seth]

Just a wild guess, but I bet they weren't BBQ-ing at 9:30 am in February.

Sounds like you need to meet some of my neighbors!

[Seth]

But yes, the news reports have attributed the cause of the fire to "careless disposal of smoking material".

[S33]

I hear people really enjoy smoking their houseplants in those little closets out on the deck.

I don't know this first hand; I heard it from a buddy who's brother overheard some delinquents talking about it at some store.

[Brad]

I hear people really enjoy smoking their houseplants in those little closets out on the deck.

The Hippie Lettuce?

[S33]

I hear people really enjoy smoking their houseplants in those little closets out on the deck.

Yeah, that stuff