Quick Thinking Averts Stupidity Fire

The quick thinking of a visitor from Saskatchewan waiting in the ferry lineup and a Capernwray staff member with a bucket and a phone averted what could have easily become a serious incident this afternoon.  Around 1:15 pm someone carelessly flicked a cigarette butt into the peat moss at the side of the road by the ferry terminal.  The smouldering fire was spotted and the visitor emptied a can of pop onto it while the Capernwray staff member called 911 and filled an ice-cream bucket of water from her house and doused it further.  Eleven fire fighters and both fire engines responded to this near miss.  We were lucky this time.

Please urge walking and driving smokers to "dry strip" their butts and put them into ash trays.  This is only July.  We need to get through August and September...traditionally even drier months.  It can take only one careless butt to lose the island.