Good Old-Fashioned Book Burning Inadvertently Takes Out 10 Houses

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By Thomas Phippen

A book-burning party turned dangerous and took out at least 10 houses in Florida Wednesday, forcing 150 people to evacuate.

The wildfire, which authorities are calling the Garfield Road fire, burned nearly 400 acres, and the fire department announced that it was 65 percent contained Thursday morning, local station News 4 JAX reports.

The fire started around 2 p.m. Wednesday when a man started burning paperback books. As the wind picked up, the fire got away from the man and he could no longer control the bonfire.

A neighbor called 911 as the fire began to spread to other homes. “It’s burning everything,” the caller told the 911 dispatcher, News 4 reported.

“He can’t get the hose to reach. Oh my God. It’s burning down dead grass toward other people. He shouldn’t have been doing what he was doing. The damn woods are on fire, now,” the caller said.

It’s unclear why the man was burning the books, but the Florida Forest Service reminded everyone that burning “garbage” is illegal in Florida.

“It was an illegal burn,” Annaleasa Winter, a spokeswoman for the Florida Forest Service, said according to CNN. “It was paper. It got away from him.”

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