(04-07-2022, 06:59 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(04-07-2022, 03:59 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: People might be shocked at the sheer number of homeless fires happening downtown, as just about none of them ever make the news. I've lost count of the number set on the property I live on, or one of the immediately neighbouring properties. Thankfully all of these have been caught very early, but they are frequent enough that I sometimes have nightmares about them as I fall asleep.
This makes me wonder, for some homeless, what is actually needed to keep them in safer accommodations.
Somebody who doesn’t understand that you can’t have a campfire inside a building is not somebody who is capable of living independently.
There are no easy solutions, but some of these people likely wouldn't start a fire if they weren't cold. It is really tiring to be cold all the time, and I don't even like fires.
PS speaking of fires it's also extremely common to have people lighting fires outside where they really shouldn't be lighting fires (because of conservation, or fire hazard, or...)