charcoal briquette
兵庫県赤穂市の山火事はバーベキューの炭火が山に捨てられ、火事につながったとみて、会社員を森林法の失火の疑いで逮捕しました。
Man arrested for starting forest fire after barbecue in Hyogo
Police on Monday arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of starting a mountain forest fire after he threw a smoldering charcoal briquette into the woods following a barbecue in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze started in the mountains at around 3 p.m. It spread to near the Sanyo and Harima expressways which were closed to traffic for seven hours on Sunday night, Fuji TV reported. The fire forced more than 80 families to evacuate from their homes.
The fire was not extinguished until around 6 a.m. Monday morning. Six self-defense force helicopters carrying water joined 25 fire engines to combat the blaze.
Firefighters said the blaze destroyed over 70 hectares of forest.
Fuji TV quoted police as saying that the suspect, identified as Daigo Kawahara, held a barbecue at his home on Sunday afternoon. He was quoted by police as saying he disposed of the charcoal in the forest but did not realize it was still smoldering.
briquetteは、いわゆる豆炭（木材や鉄板などの削り屑、あるいは粉粒状の物質を高圧で押し固めてブロック状にしたもの--SPACE ALC）ですが、学生は知らないでしょうね。Websterには"a compacted often brick-shaped mass of usually fine material"とあります。（UG）
