Story Highlights
• Calls indicate fire started in or near employee smoking area
• Management warned against flicking ashes into trash bin, employee says
• Fire at furniture warehouse killed nine firefighters
• Thousands of firefighters expected for Friday's memorial service

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/cha....ap/index.html

This is one of the reasons more and more businesses are not allowing employees to smoke on the premisis.