Alan writes:

Here’s another “What have we sunk to?” item.

Here are pics of the second trash can that has been burned up at Meridian Park by the restrooms. The first time it was just the lid. Someone couldn’t figure out that there are real fire receptacles available to have a bit of a fire in just across the park. That was a month or two ago.

Now, someone has burned up the entire can, lid and all. Seems to me that to get a trash can this melted would require some “help” of some sort. Ask a fire investigator. Is this the work of the crazy yoots that hold late night parties, though it sure isn’t summer now and the drunken parties surely have subsided? Or is it our inebriated transient population trying to get warm, and they, too, can’t figure out that there are real fire receptacles in the area (see earlier articles about the AIA concerns)? Or is it someone tuning up for bigger arson escapades in our neighborhood??

If anyone heard or saw anything further about this, they should let the fire department know. The “Non-Emergency Number” is 206-625-5011. We don’t want to see a duplication of the tragedies that our neighbors in Greenwood have been seeing.