Fire Ban Restrictions – CMC ENews Archive

Stage Two Fire Ban Restrictions to be implemented in Garfield County, White River National Forest and local BLM and NPS land

Effective today, 6/20, the CMC Rifle Campus will implement Stage 2 fire ban restrictions due to extreme fire danger in Garfield County.

On Friday, June 22, the Bureau of Land Management (Northwest Colorado District) the White River National Forest and the National Park Service-Colorado National Monument will institute “Stage II Fire Restrictions.” This ban affects many of our communities and local recreation areas, and includes restrictions on campfires, charcoal grill use, fireworks, and smoking. Please help keep our communities and wild lands safe by respecting this ban.

Stage II fire restrictions prohibit:

•Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire, charcoal grill, coal, wood burning stove or sheepherders stove, including in developed camping and picnic grounds. Devices using pressurized liquid or gas are exempted;

•Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle, trailer, building or tent

•Using an explosive requiring fuse or blasting caps, fireworks, rockets, exploding targets and tracers or incendiary ammunition;

•Operating a chainsaw without an approved spark arrestor and without chemical pressurized fire extinguisher (8 oz. capability by weight or larger and kept with the operator) and without one “O” or larger round point shovel with an overall length of at least 35 inches that is readily available for use;

•Welding, or operating an acetylene or other torch with open flame (except with a current permit, contract or letter of authorization and the welding area must be barren or cleared of all flammable material for 10 feet on all sides of the equipment);

For more information on Colorado’s current state wide fire ban, coverage areas and further detail on Stage 2 restrictions, go to: http://pitkinemergency.org/.