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The fire which caused an estimated $150,000 in damage Wednesday to a home on Sladky Avenue was started by a cigarette in the garage, according to local fire and Red Cross officials. Although no people were injured, a house cat died in the blaze. . . .
According to fire officials, Battat's home caught fire after Shea was smoking a cigarette in the garage and left to go back into the house. When she returned, the armchair she had been sitting in had erupted into flames.
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Billboards with pictures of animals on them are being used to spread anti-smoking messages.
With a grant from the Tennessee Department of Health, billboards featuring a chimpanzee, pig, duck, collie and fawn with cigarettes hanging from their lips or beak are going up in four Cleveland locations. The headline above them reads, "It looks just as stupid when you do it."
It's just part of an anti-tobacco campaign in a state where burley tobacco was once a top cash crop.
Simon Chapman, public health academic, Australia
Rookmaaker LC. Captive rhinoceroses in Europe from 1500 until 1810. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 1973;43:39-63.
Not a book, but a masterpiece. Between 1500 and 1810, 10 rhinos were successfully brought to Europe for the edification of various courts. One was "fond of the smell of tobacco and now and then the ones who took care of it blew smoke into his nostrils and mouth."
Ai Ai was imported from Japan with a male gorilla in 1982. The male gorilla died in 1989.
Ai Ai then became restless and irritable, refusing food, instead chewing on cigarette butts left on the ground by zoo visitors.
"We did not pay attention to her at first," said zookeeper Wang Aiying.
"But gradually the gorilla got a craving for tobacco and needed at least 20 cigarettes a day."
"If we refused to give her cigarettes, she would knock the door very hard, yelling and screaming, and sometimes she would go on a hunger strike," the zookeeper said.
The Kruger National Park’s Managing Executive Dr Bandile Mkhize accepted a donation of 195 MaxiBin cigarette disposal bins today (Monday June 23, 2008) from British American Tobacco (BAT) South Africa.
“I would like to be first in line to thank and congratulate BAT South Africa for this marvellous initiative,” said Dr Mkhize during the hand over function at Skukuza.
Cigarette butts are a constant problem, not only because they are repulsive and can perhaps be ingested by animals, but also because of the obvious fire risk. . . .
On hearing about the challenge faced by the KNP, BAT South Africa stepped forward immediately, especially in light of its awareness about the environmental impact that its products can have if consumers do not adopt considerate smoking behaviour.
A Tucson man is homeless after an accidental fire destroyed his east side condo, killing his dog and bird on Monday, June 23. The owner wasn't home when the fire started, but firefighters say a guest who was asleep inside is lucky to be alive. . . .
investigators found that the fire was caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette. The cigarette was discarded on the porch. "If you smoke, make sure you discard your cigarettes in a big ash tray or an area where it's not going to be combustible," said Tracy.
ASPEN -- A cigarette left in potting soil caused Tuesday's fire that destroyed 10 units in the Castle Ridge Apartments, according to Aspen fire officials.
No one was injured in the blaze, but 17 people were displaced.
"They'd left a cigarette," said Aspen Fire Marshal Ed Van Walraven. "And the cigarette wasn't quite out enough."
The two men renting unit 107, where investigators said the fire started, could not be reached for comment.
Van Walraven said the pair apparently left the apartment after smoking on the balcony . . .
All 17 residents escaped -- one cat died of asphyxiation -- but the building was a loss, officials said.
Dozens of firefighters tackled two moorland blazes spending hours at the sites on the Lancashire-West Yorkshire border over the bank holiday.
One of the fires - thought to have been started by a discarded cigarette - engulfed 300 acres of Marsden Moor, the National Trust said. . . .
The Marsden Moor fire at Scammonden, near Huddersfield, caused widespread damage to the land and endangered the lives of nesting birds and other wildlife in the area, the National Trust said.
A cigarette thrown from a car has been identified as the likely cause of a heathland fire in Dorset which killed hundreds of rare lizards and birds.
The National Trust said it was probably thrown from a car in Ferry Road and destroyed 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) on the Studland peninsula.
Up to 120 firefighters battled the blaze on Tuesday afternoon at the Site of Special Scientific Interest.
National Trust experts believe at least 500 reptiles are likely to have died.
It is one of the few places in Britain where six native reptile species can be found. . . .
It is expected to take up to 20 years for the area to be fully recolonised. . . .
David Hodd, the National Trust head warden for Purbeck, said: "Almost everything in the area has been killed by the flames and smoke.
"It could not have come at a worse time for the wildlife on the heath because it is the breeding season."
A resident of an RV resort in Oceano lost her home and was injured Saturday afternoon when her trailer caught fire because she was smoking a cigarette while changing an oxygen tank, authorities said.
Velma Selnik, 55, who had lived at the Pacific Dunes Ranch for about eight years, suffered second-and third-degree burns to 9 percent of her body, according to County/Cal Fire Investigator Andy Andersen.
She had been smoking while changing an oxygen cylinder used to treat her asthma
Phoenix watched other dogs bark, jump and play at the sixth annual Stomp, Romp & Wag festival at Colorado State University.
The festival raises awareness of the dangers that secondhand smoke poses to pets, including increased rates of lung and oral cancers, allergies and skin ailments. The college-age population has the highest rate of smoking, according to health officials.
"Secondhand smoke is a horrible thing," said CSU junior Reed Nelson, as he walked Phoenix away from the free doggie massage tent. "It's depressing that people would subject their pet to it."
Last year's fair drew about 1,000 people and about 250 dogs, and this year's event looked like it was proving even more popular, organizers said.
The event is organized by CSU's Hartshorn Health Service through a smoking-prevention grant.
A FIRE which killed a woman in her first floor flat may have been started by a lit cigarette.
Yesterday, police named the victim of the fire in Darlington on Tuesday evening as 49-year-old Pauline Nixon. . . .
Ms Nixon, who had one daughter, lived alone, except for two parakeets and a miniature Yorkshire Terrier.
The birds were found dead in the flat.
A fire in a two-family home on Wright Avenue yesterday afternoon was started by improper disposal of a cigarette, acting Deputy Fire Chief Christopher W. Norris said today.
It appears a resident of the building threw a cigarette off the back deck of 3-5 Wright Ave., a side street between Pleasant and Conz streets not far from downtown, and it ignited a pile of bark mulch and wood chips which spread quickly to the two-story deck and into the house, Norris said.
"This goes hand and hand with us issuing a press release on Monday about the dry conditions and not to have any open burning," Norris said. "Improperly disposing of a cigarette like that is the same thing."
Two cats were apparently killed in the fire and the building is expected to be torn down.
Fire officials believe careless smoking caused a Port Credit high-rise blaze that killed two cats on Monday morning.
The fire broke out at about 11:30 a.m., at an apartment complex at 55 Park St. E. . . .
Fire inspectors believe a cigarette left burning in a plastic tray, while the tenants of the apartment went out, caused the blaze.
NEW PORT RICHEY - The fire that destroyed a couple's home, sent the husband to a Tampa hospital and killed the family dog Monday was caused by someone smoking in bed, Pasco County Fire Marshal Larry Whitten said.