Ex smoker here.

I never threw my butts out the car window.

At home, I smoked outside and had a glass soda bottle with water in it to put my butts.

Ugh. Litterbugs.

I wish all police would so discourage littering. Especially when the litter is on fire!

I've memories of dumping water from a huge canvas "bucket" slung under my helio on fires in the Huachuca & Chiricahua mountains for what seemed little to no effect. Us Easterners who live in pretty wet woodlands have no concept of what a wildfire can do to a semi-arid ecosystem.

Kudos to that police chief!
Canada, oh Canada...!!

Good.
I've smoked. I still have the occasional one when I drink. I'm around smokers all the time. No problem.
Except most smokers use the world as their ash tray and it pisses me off. One little butt may not be bad, but when it's followed by it's billions of brothers....everywhere you look, then it's a problem.

Hope they do this in California...

You are brave! You could have been trapped! Good for you...and for the police...laws that are not enforced are useless...and this law saved trees and lives.

Just goes to show that smoking is bad for your wealth!

They apparently just established that the California Ranch Fire, the largest fire to hit California, was started by a farmer trying to plug up a wasp nest with a metal stake. Seems far fetched, right? Seems he is allergic to wasp stings and there was an underground nest on his property. He took a metal stake up to plug it up and on a mishit on the stake, sent a spark into the dry brush. But the time he got back to his place and called for help, the fire had spread over the mountain and proceeded to burn over 400K acres. [abc10.com]

That's a very good thing

Good! I wonder i it was at night. Other wise it would be difficult to tell if it was lit.

Littering should be fined in any case. Throwing out something that can burn as hot and long as a cigerette butt should have a much higher fine.

Does Liberty Orchards (Home of Aplets and Cotlets) still have the pink fruit stand along the highway?

Being from California, which is always on fire, I feel like that's a no-brainer.

Hope it goes virual for all to see

Righteous

When I travel I5 down through California during fire season you will see every mile or so small (less than an acre) burned areas that are probably caused by cigarette butts casually tossed out the window or vehicle catalytic converter caused burns.

Not near enough of a fine. Should have added the potential cost of a heli attack crew, one engine, fire crew and water tanker. Might, but most likely not, make people think about it. Unless of course, they are pryo's .

$575 should stick in the perp's memory for quite a while. May get the attention of a few other oafs that they could be a little bit poorer for being careless, or a lot poorer if they actually start a fire.

I wish that happened in the
US often enough to get filthy smokers to take responsibility for their toxic waste.

For best results a forest should be burned every three years.

Devil’s advocate here.