Qikz wrote:Robbo-92 wrote:It’s worrying how dense a small amount of the general public are regarding open fires/BBQs in such conditions, sadly I imagine nearly all of the wildfires caused by such people will never be traced back to a particular person or set of individuals as, well I imagine it’s almost impossible.
It annoys me a little that hosepipe bans are rightly being implemented in various areas of the country at the moment, but they’re not outright banning the sales of disposable BBQs too which are obviously causing some of these fires, which need an absolute shed load more water to deal with, which in turn makes the potential water shortage worse? Sure I imagine fires near the coast could be helped along with seawater, but inland they don’t really have a choice I imagine unless they’re near a river.
Most supermarkets have removed the disposable BBQs from their shelves already.
Which is good from the retailers, but when there’s a theoretical fine of about £1000 for using a hosepipe during a hosepipe ban (not that I imagine many, if anyone has actually been fined that much, if anything), why not do the same for disposable BBQs? I fully understand the police are stretched as it is but I imagine they’d be able to afford a few officers or PCSOs to go around national parks, local parks etc just once a day until the hosepipe bans have been lifted and we’ve actually had some rain and issue a fixed penalty notice for anyone using them?
Now forecast 33c here tomorrow