Firefighters say an ignited cigarette thrown into a bed of dry mulch is believed to have started a fire that destroyed a McDonald’s restaurant on North Dixie in Elizabethtown last week.
Elizabethtown deputy fire chief Everett Roberts said by the time firefighters arrived Thursday, the fire had spread from outdoor landscaping to the building and into the attic. No one was injured.
Roberts says firefighters also responded earlier in the day to a similar call where someone threw a cigarette into mulch at an assisted living center that ignited another fire.
Roberts cautions residents and businesses from putting mulch alongside walls of buildings that he says creates “a potentially dangerous situation.”
Source: AP
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