Dear Action Line: The towering tree-mulch piles at Johnson Park, 61st Street and Riverside Drive, are steaming. On the farm we learned that putting damp hay bales in the barn caused it to ...

Spontaneous combustion can cause mulch or compost piles to ignite on their own. The Mills River fire started Oct. 4. The fire is too deep to be put out with water. A fire at a Mills River mulch yard ...

A mulch fire at a Bellingham landscape business burned 6.5 acres of land and required about 50 firefighters to contain. The fire, likely caused by spontaneous combustion, started in two large mulch ...

Jun. 24—CANTON — A fire broke out at the old mill landfill in Canton early Saturday morning, sparked by spontaneous combustion deep within an enormous pile of mulch. The private landfill on Thickety ...

MILLS RIVER – A thick column of gray smoke could be seen from miles away the morning of Oct. 6, as a large fire at a Mills River mulch yard entered its third day of burning. It is expected to smolder ...

Firefighters in Fort Collins responded to two unrelated fires May 12 they say likely started from spontaneous combustion. Spontaneous combustion occurs when there is a chemical reaction that can cause ...

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JENKS, Okla. — It's been five days since a mulch pile at Gem Dirt, a local soil supplier in Jenks, caught fire. Since then, concerns about heavy smoke and air quality have also billowed out of the ...

SAN CARLOS PARK, Fla. – Fire crews are busy fighting a massive fire in south Lee County, as a large pile of mulch burns. Workers at MW Horticulture Recycling noticed the 50X50, 20 foot tall mulch pile ...

9:45 a.m. update: Fire officials say a blaze that started in a 50-foot-high mulch pile near Lake Travis is 100 percent contained, however firefighters will remain on scene through the day to ...

An ongoing mulch fire is causing smoky conditions in the Lincoln area, southeast of Milford. "Trees, brush, and other materials that were cleared for the new Cypress Estates housing development off ...

MONROE — Fire officials suspect a fire at a Woodlawn Road home early Friday was caused by the spontaneous combustion of a large pile of saw dust from a wood floor refinishing project, fire officials ...