Saturday, February 10, 2018

Christmas trees catch fire in Tompkins Square Park


[Photo by Steven the other day]

You may have noticed that pile of Christmas trees in Tompkins Square Park ... in the MulchFest pen waiting to be mulched...

Anyway, this morning around 7:30, EVG reader Rajani Tewari noticed that the trees had caught fire...



No word on how the fire started — whether it was intentional or accidental...
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12 comments:

  1. JQ LLCFebruary 11, 2018 at 6:30 AM

    Looks intentional. Either by bored kids or those entitled enabled drunk assholes yelling in the streets that are always talked about on this site or the crusties..

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 8:57 AM

    This makes me sad and a little angry that there are individuals in our community who would do this.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 10:42 AM

    The trees didn't set themselves on fire.
    Now even this is being ruined.

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  4. NOTORIOUSFebruary 11, 2018 at 11:18 AM

    It seems it was a busy night for terror tots.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 12:08 PM

    Most likely intentional - how else?

    How are Christmas trees still being mulched in FEBRUARY? LOL

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 12:56 PM

    Is there any coherent reason that discarded trees would STILL be there waiting to be (theoretically) mulched as of Feb. 10th?

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 12:59 PM

    As it was raining all of yesterday, I'm guessing this was intentional. Shame to lose all that potential mulch. Lucky the fire didn't spread and destroy the park.

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  8. GiovanniFebruary 11, 2018 at 1:42 PM

    Someone may have lit the fire, but it was Leonard Cohen who put it out.

    Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
    Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
    A million candles burning for the love that never came
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 2:03 PM

    We are lucky the whole park did not go up in flames, fortunately things were damp these past days. It is not easy to set a bunch of dead trees on fire, I tried at a friend's house in the country once to get rid of branches and pruning stuff. Someone must have used gasoline or lighter fluid to get this to a crisp.

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 5:42 PM

    Actually, charred wood makes better fertilizer than uncharred. That's what the whole 'slash and burn' method of agriculture was about.

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2018 at 7:20 PM

    It's actually quite easy to set these on fire. I was messing around in a friends back yard years ago. We were joking with a lighter and a tree and it immediately burst into flames. However it could have also been a cigarette butt etc... I doubt an accelerant like gasoline was used. I believe this is how rumors get started?

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2018 at 11:15 AM

    Perhaps accidental? Someone might have thrown a lit cigarette to its direction.

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