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FROM THE GRIFFIN GURU 



When Not To Let It Burn 



Your greenhouse and headhouse are on fire 

 and you call the fire department. They arrive 

 and help you watch it burn to the ground. 

 This almost happened just the other day. 



1 am concerned with the lack of communica- 

 tion between businesses and their local fire 

 department relative to the above problem. Re- 

 cent fires involving greenhouse complexes 

 have been followed by extensive and time-con- 

 suming clean up. Involved are pesticides and 

 fertilizers spread by the efforts to extinguish 

 the blaze. 



Your local fire chief may read numerous ar- 

 ticles and incident reports written about let- 

 ting the complex burn as the best way to pre- 

 vent an environmental disaster, but if he is 

 made aware that the storage area for your 

 supplies is safe from fire and will not cause a 

 run-off problem with all that water used, your 

 fire department should be able to react in the 

 proper manner. 



Let's put it another way. If your brother, son 

 or daughter were in the fire service, would 

 you want them exposed to the smoke and run- 

 off from the contents of your greenhouse in 

 the event of a fire? 



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