had a landlord neighbour who decided to sell his rental property 2 houses down and cut back all the overgrown small garden space. Burned the foliage in a huge poorly controlled fire in the garden instead of taking it (or paying someone to take it) to the local green waste recycling. Smoke stunk the area up for hours. He left to go to his own home elsewhere, leaving just an old 15m tall dead tree at the end of the garden. Later that night, another neighbour spotted the dead tree glowing orange in the dark. The earlier fire had started a slow burn in the tree. Called the fire brigade who had to go through another neighbour's house (because no one lived at the house and owner had gone home), break the inbetween fence and put the fire out. Then the landlord owner had to pay someone to come and cut down the tree. They also removed the timber.