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Burn Permits and Regulations
Do you regulate/oversee open burning in your City/area? Open burning (brush and wood debris)? Burn Barrels? Do you charge for the permits?
We are considering only allowing permitted burns during the winter time and shutting down open burning when the fire season starts. Your thoughts and comments?
We are considering only allowing permitted burns during the winter time and shutting down open burning when the fire season starts. Your thoughts and comments?
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Permalink Reply by Michael A Freezer on
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In our Township, there are no regulations in regards to burning. Any resident can do it at anytime, burning barrels or open burns. It is a rural area for the most part. The only regulation is what they can burn and that is established by the state Enviromental Protection Agency. During extreme dry conditions, the county sometimes enacts a county-wide burning ban.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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Mike not anymore....NY State has stopped ALL burning barrels within the State, and has severely restricted all burning....we(fire department) now have to get a permit to do live burns, and they do not come easily....any roofing material or shingles have to come off as well as any carpeting,pvc pipes,furniture or insulation.....
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Permalink Reply by Michael Rocke on
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Open burning between January 15th and May 1st in Ma. The season usually gets sketchy end of March first part of April. It gets dry here quick and that is the time people decide to burn. First brush fire, I close the season. Conditions to dry, I close the season. Open burning is for fallen or storm debris. No land clearing or building materials.
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Alice on
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In Ontario the issue of Open Burning is controlled under the Fire Code with some pretty strict enforcement if it really came down to it....but it also provides for the municipalities to make thier own by-laws with regards to open burning and to use the Code if necassary. Our municipality will allow open burns with permit (basically call up the Fire Prevention Officer and tell then your plans and they'll make notes of it etc.) But any open burning is subject to some strict guidlines involving the fire pit, location, available water sources, weather conditions and of course, what is being burned. When we are paged out on an open burn call the Officer on scene has the authority to permit the burn to coninue or to shut it down. Any fines would be forwarded to the Fire Prevention Officer for follow up and Enforcement....but usually if it is shutdown and everyone cooperates thats were it stops....there's a bit more to it but thats the nut shell....
We tend to find the old farmers still have issue with the open burn thing and dont understand why they can't burn thier crop stubs or ditches etc..... but its making progress hehehehe.....
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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on
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No "open" burning, which covers leaves, trash, building materials, etc. Technically even a 'warming barrel' on a construction site is not allowed but would most likely be ignored. The only thing that is allowed is a 'cooking' fire and this needs to be in a pit or other suitable area that would contain it (and there needs to be food present). During red flag days nothing is allowed.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Ayotte on
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My community is in Massachusetts, and as Mike Rocke stated, burning season is January 15th through May 1st. This timeframe is set by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Burning is allowed between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM, all fires have to be started by noon and extinguished by 4. There must be a hose, extinguisher or buckets of water nearby, and the fire cannot be left unattended.
We charge a $10 for the permit, it is good for the season. The determination on weather to allow open burning is up to the OIC at HQ.
People holding permits have to call Fire Alarm to activate the permit for the day.
People that have agricultural operations can burn anytime.
As Mike stated, branches and storm debris can be burned. Leave cannot be burned, neither trash nor construction/demolition materials.
Of course, every year.. someone tries to "push the envelope". Their permits are revoked and the fires extinguished, either by them using heir garden hose or us.. with a much "larger" line.
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I like to foam it.....they never get it started again....lol
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Permalink Reply by Jason Hoevelmann on
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Our region is mostly regulated by the Department of Natural Resources and we get stuck with enforcing those regulatations for them. Our city has a smoke ordinance that is only enforced if someone calls and complains. As a fire agency, we do have some open burning regs but it is basically a mirror of the city and DNR with the exception of fireworks. Most people do call for permission to burn and it works decent.
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on
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We have our City regulations that allows open burns (wood debris, brush, back yard trimmings) by permit for two actual identified days only. We inspect and issue the permits. A person has to wait 4 days before they can be issued another burn permit. Burn barrels were banned several years ago. Commercial land clearing burns are also regulated by us. These are few and far between. Department of Environmental Quality determines the State smoke management regulations that we have to enforce. As I stated we are considering going to a shutdown when the fire season goes into effect. Primarily July through end of October. The County area around us is regulated by a agency representing the Oregon Department of Forestry. There is no regulation of fires in the county after the fire season ends. This causes much problems as we have two rural districts that we cover under contract. So we get called to quite a bit illegal burn calls out in our county area.. Both burn barrels and open burning. So our attempt is to shut down burning in the County and in our city during the fire season and only regulate or issue permits burning during the winter months. We are also wanting to establish a permit fee. I appriciate so much all the responses and comments.
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Michael.....I have you there.....I like to take a 2 1/2" and blow the crap all over their property.......along with about 200lbs of mud.....Gets the point across....Paul
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Permalink Reply by Wade Seely on
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There is no burning allowed in the city limits. Outside of that a permit is required from the department. we have various permits including agricultural, brush, and celebration permits. I don't know if the district charges for them or not. Residents may also request to have the department do the burn if it is believed to be a higher risk but necessary burn, or tto burn down an existing structure.
TCSS
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Permalink Reply by Rusty Mancini on
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In our district our citizens have to give a recorded notification to our state forestry division. This is only for leaves and small limbs. All land clearing and agricultural prescribed burns, you must first go through a smoke management certification class that our state forestry commission provides, and you must have a permit from the forestry commission. If you don't have the cert. the fine could be ten thousand dollars, yes; ten thousand dollars!
Burn barrels are allowed and we don't issue fines, only the forestry commission does that! On occasion we will babysit a prescribed hay field burn.
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