As long as it was safe it should have been left to burn. If the tree cuttings had been left to dry sufficiently, at least a few months, & if the pile was piled up in a dense manner, the bulk of the fire would have burned hot & cleanly. It would have been relatively smokeless & burned in a short period of time.

The mistake the match holder made was lighting the pile at night. He scared the you know what out of people for miles around. Much better to have burned it by day, no wind, with fewer people home to worry about ‘whats that?’. Burn hot, clean & fast.

The smell of branches burning is not a bad thing. Has nobody ever been camping? Time to get out the smores.

While I am thankful that no one appears to be injured, I am not pleased with the idiot who had the bright idea to put a match to a huge pile of debris in the Riddell’s Bay quarry so that the residents of Riddell’s Bay and half of Warwick get to suck in dense smoke for the rest of the night. I also would like to meet this rocket scientist so I can send him a bill to clean my water tanks now that the rain is running all the soot down my drains.