Fire started by cigarette on Butler Place early this afternoon 8.20.2014

Someone threw a lit cigarette into a tree pit on the northwest side of Butler Place early this afternoon.  This particular tree pit is covered with mulch and dry pine needles. As I was walking by at about 12:30, it had already begun to smolder, and a woman was trying to put out the cigarette by stomping it and covering it with dirt, but she had no water.  I ran home and came back with a big bowl of water, and by the time I got there a couple of minutes later, there were flames in two places and lots of smoke. The water doused the fire, but, as I saw a few minutes later, not completely, as it started smoking again. The super at 15 Butler and I used their hose, and flooded it.