I don't understand.
Why do people keep insisting on burning on that field when it
has a history of burning down in previous years? Worse, the
perpetuators live right next to the fire they started. The logic is
simply not there.
I'm not going to say that burning such stuff is wrong or what,
but I think its very wrong when we see warped drain covers, burnt
marks on pathways meant for the living, and fire right where you
live. The fire was barely 20m from the nearest house at the ground
level.
What's even sadder was the slow reaction of the people who live
there when they see the fire. The big black patch in the first
picture was due to the fire probably burning for sometime before
someone did anything. The fire I witnessed could have burnt down
another significant portion if I had not called 995 early, thus
limiting the damage to about 10m diameter.
On another occasion where some idiot tried to start a fire at
the letterboxes, making use of the piles of waste paper ads on the
floor, the old folks just stood there are gap. Fortunately someone
took a bucket of water and poured it onto the fire soon after.