Re: fire ban
- From: Smoky Bar <smoke@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:15:15 -0600
In article <1151520271.543843.128340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
aaronmatthewsfx@xxxxxxxxx says...
:STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - If you want to cook hot dogs over a campfire this
:holiday weekend, you'll need a designated campsite with a provided and
:approved fire grate.
:
:Fire officials have banned open fires, effective today, in eight
:counties across Northwest Colorado. They cited bone-dry vegetation and
:unseasonably warm temperatures as the primary cause of the ban. The
:restriction includes all state, federal and county lands in Routt,
:Moffat, Eagle, Grand, Jackson, Larimer, Rio Blanco and Summit counties.
:
:"Current fire and fuel conditions are about a month ahead of normal,"
:said Fire Management Officer Cliff Hutton of the Northwest Colorado
:Fire Management Unit, which announced the sweeping ban Tuesday.
:
:Lynn Barclay, spokeswoman and fire mitigation specialist for the Bureau
:of Land Management, said that although individual agencies will set
:their own specific fire guidelines, Tuesday's announcement indicated
:that restrictions will be put in place across the region today.
:
:"That was a broad message indicating to people that there will be some
:kind of fire restrictions," Barclay said. "The broad stroke is that
:there will be no open fires anywhere."
:
:U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Diann Ritschard said Tuesday night that
:though she didn't yet know the particulars, fire restrictions for the
:Routt National Forest will be made effective today.
:
:Also on Tuesday, Routt County Commissioners enacted a countywide ban on
:open fires, effective at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
:
:"It's been getting progressively drier," Chuck Vale, director of the
:county's emergency management department, told commissioners. "We're
:afraid that we won't have enough (fire suppression) resources if
:something gets started. We're just barely wetter than we were in 2002."
:
:In that year, the state's Department of Local Affairs reported 36
:wildfires in Colorado, including the Mt. Zirkel Complex fire 25 miles
:north of Steamboat Springs. The Burn Ridge and Hinman fires combined to
:form the Mt. Zirkel Complex fire, which burned 31,016 acres, injured 14
:people and cost $13.3 million.
:
:The complex fire, started by lightning, occurred in the same area as
:the current Rainbow Family of Living Light gathering, which so far has
:drawn an estimated 4,000 people to Routt National Forest land near Big
:Red Park in North Routt County. The gathering ends July 7, but many
:participants are expected to linger in the area. The Hinman Fire
:started July 12, 2002.
:
:Barclay said regional fire restrictions allow fires at "campgrounds
:maintained and established by the Forest Service that are identified
:and named."
:
:Rainbow participants have created several large, communal kitchens
:throughout the gathering area. Many of the kitchens include large cook
:fires in deep fire pits.
:
:Barclay said those fires would likely be prohibited, because the sites
:are not maintained by the Forest Service.
:
:Routt County's fire ban, similar to the larger, eight-county ban,
:prohibits the following activities:
:
:=3F Building, maintaining, att?--ending or using any fire to burn
:trash, debris, fence rows or vegetation. Any campfire, warming fire or
:charcoal grill, except in designated campgrounds, picnic areas or
:developed recreational sites. Charcoal grills at private residences are
:not banned.
:
:=3F Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed
:recreation site, or while stopped in an area of at least 3 feet in
:diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material.
:
:=3F Operating a chain saw without a USDA or SAE approved
:spark-arresting device properly installed and in effective working
:order. A chemical pressurized fire extinguisher and a round pointed
:shovel are also required for chain saw use.
:
:=3F Welding or operating an acetylene torch or other torch with an open
:flame, except within an area that is barren or cleared of all flammable
:material for at least 10 feet on all sides from the equipment.
:
:=3F Using explosives requiring fuse blasting caps.
:
:The following activities are exempted from the fire ban in Routt
:County:
:
:=3F Any fires contained within liquid-fueled or gas stoves, fireplaces
:within buildings, and permanent fire pits or fire grates located in
:developed picnic grounds and campgrounds.
:
:=3F Burning of irrigation ditches located within and completely
:surrounded by irrigated farmlands, where such burning is necessary for
:crop survival and a specific written permit has been granted in advance
:by the Routt County Sheriff.
:
:Routt County's fire ban will be in place until county commissioners
:remove it, upon the recommendation of Vale and Routt County Sheriff
:John Warner.
:
:
Enjoy eating granola from a sack and GORP!
.
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