In Hokkaido, High School Students Started Forest Fire By Throwing Away Meat Which Got On Fire

On April 30th, around 1:45pm, the high school students who were doing BBQ called "119 (emergency telephone number)" and said,  "Fire burned and spread to the field" in the copse near the residential street of 10-4, Kiyota, Kiyota-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido.

Fire was extinguished about 1 hour afterward, and although about 2300 square meters of forest burned, no one got hurt and there was no spread of fire to buildings.

According to Toyohira Sapporo Hokkaido police says, the high school 4 boys were doing BBQ and threw the meat which got on fire away to the dry grass, then fire spread on grass.


( 2012.5.1 /10:52am / Yomiuri Newspaper)
Link:  http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/n...from=main8