Spontaneous combustion starts fire in Merced, fire officials say

MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A heap of mulch spontaneously combusted successful Merced connected Friday evening, occurrence officials said.

The City of Merced Fire Department says the mulch heap occurrence started eastbound of the metropolis adjacent Childs Avenue and Campus Parkway.

Although determination is nary menace to adjacent structures, occurrence crews accidental fume is pushing into municipality and promote residents to bounds outdoor enactment if they announcement fume successful their area.

According to FEMA, integrated material, specified arsenic mulch, tin spontaneously combust erstwhile it decomposes. The process causes a chemic absorption that releases vigor - erstwhile the worldly is incapable to cool, spontaneous combustion is possible.