buring fence Cassanova way

Last Sunday I came home from work to find my back fence burning.I think someone must have carelessly thrown a cigarette into a pile of leaves. The fence was smoldering and the fire was progressing up a vine going up a large half dead tree on the neighboring property. There is a lot of wood and dead weeds and leaves in many of the allies that could ignite,so as a word of caution you might want to clean it up if you have a wooden fence. Cheryl