Tree safety during the holiday season
CAL FIRE warned Action News Now about the dangers of improper tree care.
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 10:10 PM
Updated: Dec 17, 2020 10:21 PM
Posted By: Carmela Karcher
BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. - Christmas may be a week away, but most people already have their Christmas trees up and decorated.
But, now s the time most Christmas tree fires happen.
CAL FIRE warned Action News Now about the dangers of improper tree care. That Christmas tree ignites and then it s going to cause other things within the home to ignite whether there is chairs nearby, furniture, draperies,” Captain John Gaddie of CAL FIRE in Butte County said. “So, a Christmas tree goes up in one minute, produces the smoke and the heat very quickly in a room, in an enclosed room, so that heat and smoke build and the potential of that fire growing prior to the fire department arrival or prior to the homeowner waking up and hopefully this message will get out and we won t see that upti