Whom do I call about garden fires?

MontgomeryClift

That's it. It's a blazing hot evening and I can't go outside because the house in covered in a blanket of smoke from someone else's bonfire. IS THERE A NUMBER I CAN CALL TO REPORT THIS? I'm in Kilkenny, and I've tried the EPA website but they're no good.

Celticfire

Fire Brigade perhaps.

Try the local county council - environmental services.

Danuogma

Report your neighbours to the gestapo, they will send a truck around and take them away for "re-education".

gerky

^^Ignore certain unhelpful posters^^
Apart from being illegal, backyard burning is very dangerous to your health and is extremely annoying.
As far as I know its your local CoCouncil you report it to.
Heres a link on the Kilkenny Council site it has a number and email.Kilkenny council

blackbox

Why don't you talk to your neighbour?

You could try asking him to only light fires when the wind is blowing away from your property.

At least try this before reporting him to the "gestapo".

gerky

blackbox wrote: »

Why don't you talk to your neighbour?

You could try asking him to only light fires when the wind is blowing away from your property.

At least try this before reporting him to the "gestapo".

So it blows in to someone else, people have to learn and a good fine is sadly the only way a lot will learn.
I'm not sure people understand the dangers coming off illegal burning and if they do why do they expose themselves and their family to increased risks of cancer and several other problems.

foggy_lad

ringing the fire brigade for advice might be an option and they would probably pop out and put the fire out and charge your neighbour for this and also report it to the council who will most likely fine them!

siralfalot

god I love having no neighbours

big fires and loud music anytime I want

if you ring the fire brigade the person who makes the call is charged for the call out

siralfalot

siralfalot wrote: »

if you ring the fire brigade the person who makes the call is charged for the call out

I don't think so, I have heard about a farmer who was burning rubbish.
A neighbour called the fire brigade who put out the fire, gave the farmer a bill & reported the illegal burning.

sinnerboy

fire brigade . been there done that

MontgomeryClift

Fire Brigade it is, then.

I'd ring the Council but they're always closed in the evening when people light these fires. Some light them when it's dark so you don't know where the smoke is coming from.

Some respondents here seem to suggest it's harmless to light garden fires. Yet the backyard burners always ensure the wind will carry the smoke away from their own houses.

Thanks.

AngryHippie

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

Yet the backyard burners always ensure the wind will carry the smoke away from their own houses.

Thats the general idea I reckon:D

old boy

i may be wrong, wood and carboard may be legally burned