Reply to post: 24 Gallons!

Town admits 'a poor decision was made' after baseball field set on fire to 'dry' it more quickly

Eddy Ito
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24 Gallons!

So they did what? Took 5 or 6 trips to the filling station with a single can or did they go whole hog and ring up the $70 worth of gasoline in one go? Most shops around here won't let you simply fill up a drum in the back seat of your car as they want it to be grounded to reduce the odds of static discharge so I'm wondering just how they did it. Please tell me they emptied a 1 gallon hand pump sprayer a full 24 times before actually lighting up the sod.

On the upside, since they'll be rebuilding it from scratch maybe they can do it right with some sharp sand, gravel, and perhaps even a bit of drainage pipe instead of the previous, "We'll just paint base lines down at the field by the marsh and the kids can play there. What could go wrong?"

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