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CL-2026-011

July 2021: Mulch pile fire on Clay Bird Lane

incident · posted July 10, 2021

A July 11, 2021 post by Kempter’s Fire Wire shows apparatus at a mulch pile fire on Clay Bird Lane in Briarcliff Manor and describes it as “yesterday’s annual Clay Bird Lane mulch fire”. This entry is dated July 10, 2021 on that basis. It is one of the fires in the compiled Clay Bird Lane fire photographic and source record. This page is a pointer, not a substitute — read the exhibits and sources before relying on anything here.

Read the documents

Exhibit 11 is a single screenshot that shows two posts: the 2021 Kempter’s Fire Wire post at the top and, below it, a 2024 Briarcliff Manor Fire Department post. It appears in both this PDF and the December 2024 record; only its upper half concerns 2021.

What the exhibits show

  • Exhibit 33: a screenshot of the Kempter’s Fire Wire post dated July 11, 2021, captioned “Images from yesterday’s annual Clay Bird Lane mulch fire in Briarcliff Manor, NY.” Photos show red fire apparatus, including a tanker, parked on a paved area under a clear sky. The screenshot also includes public comments from other users, which are not summarized here.
  • Exhibit 11 (upper half): the same post with a tanker in front of a mulch pile, smoke rising behind it, and an excavator visible.

County record

As tabulated in the compiled timeline (incident 22 of 32):

  • Alarm: 7/11/2021, 6:34:53 AM
  • Controlled / last unit clear: 7/11/2021, 11:45:11 AM
  • Duration: 5.2 hours
  • Category: FIRE — Confirmed (official NFIRS record)
  • Incident number(s): 2021-000261
  • Mutual aid: Mutual aid received
  • Departments / units: Not specified by call sign in NFIRS summary (Briarcliff Manor FD primary; see aggregate counts)
  • Apparatus (counts): Fire: 2 | EMS: 0 | Other: 3
  • Personnel (counts): Fire: 13 | EMS: 0 | Other: 6

“FD arrived to find the mulch pile that was supposed to be dismantled the prior day smoldering. Required an additional 30,000 gallons to extinguish.” (NFIRS remarks)

Other sources

From the source record’s index:

  • Briarcliff Manor Fire Department, “Mount Pleasant Dump Fire” (July 12, 2021): bmfd.org. The source record describes it as an official department article confirming mulch piles on fire, multiple responding units, tanker-truck mutual aid, and a return call for additional watering.
  • Kempter’s Fire Wire post, July 11, 2021: facebook.com.
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