Burn Ban Still In Effect
By nighthawk • Oct 12th, 2008 • Category: AnnouncementsA Burn Ban Is In Effect For Rowan County:
The ban was enacted on September 26th, 2008
and was to go into effect immediately.
The ban prohibits ALL outdoor burning until this
area receives a significant amount of rainfall.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Just a reminder…
The County Wide BURNING BAN is still in effect.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:43 am
The county-wide Burning Ban will remain in effect until we receive at-least 2 inches of rain.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Looks like the firefighters might be getting that much needed break. Hopefully the next 24 hours will put an end to the threat of so many fires. They had to have some nuts put out a ‘control burn’ yesterday. I can’t believe with the dryness and wind that someone would still start a fire on purpose.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Hopefully, Kat, Hopefully…
We will have to receive at-least 2 inches of rain before the Judge/Executive will even consider lifting the Burn Ban. But as dry as it is, that amount might only be enough to wet the surface.
The last rain we had didn’t even wet beneath the pines, cedars, or downed leafs…
But, yeah…
I’m tired of having to worry about folks being careless by throwing cigarettes out the window,
or ignoring the burn ban and then claiming ignor-ance of the ban trying to, and sometimes
succeeding in getting out of a ticket.
I’m literally sitting in the middle of a tinderbox under the current dry conditions.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I have been checking throughout the the day and the water is finally making its way down the
trunks of the cedar trees so hopefully we will get at least another 3 or 4 hours of rain,
preferably more. Down below the cedars, surface dampness in places, but still mostly dry.
Actually dry enough to gather tinder and kindling even where it looks wet.
Take note that I have not checked the conditions of heavily wooded areas of the forest,
so it could still be extremely dry in the deep woods. I’ll check the deep woods in the early AM
hours and give some feedback.
Looking at the radar, it appears that rain is still forming in eastern Tennessee and is
moving towards our area to continue the steady rain for several more hours (I hope).
October 25th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Hopefully people don’t get a false sense of safety since it has rained, because the deep woods
has a-lot of dry places. Especially under densely/thickly populated patches of evergreens.
I was disappointed to find all the dry spots in the woods, but took advantage of one particular
dry spot to sit down and take a break that ended up being a long dry nap.
Needless to say I felt all stoved up this morning as I started to make my way back out from
the woods while thinking about how nice it would be to sit beside a wood stove for a while.
Simply put, We needed more rain.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
The wind today dried out the top layer of duff, the bottome is still dry but
the middle is damp. 15-30mph gusts dry things out quick
It was humorous to hear that guy get told the
burn ban was in effect while it was raining, I just bet
he thought “what? It is raining” but it was initially
called in as a structure fire as from the US 60
vantage to passers by it likely looked like that in
the rain with black smoke coming from a trailer
park.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The Burning Ban is still in effect according to the Rowan County Judge Executive’s Office.
I see many still trying to burn brush so this is worth putting up at the top of your home page.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Thanks for letting us know Jay. I hadn’t heard anything more about it.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:43 am
I heard on the news as of Friday the burn ban had been lifted in the Daniel Boone National Forest. Surely with all the rain that is coming down right now one would think it would be safe for campfires, etc.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:27 am
I thought I heard one of the Fire Departments extinguishing a controlled burn early yesterday,
so I don’t know about the “county emergency burning ban”.
I did hear about the burn ban being lifted for this area of the National Forest though, but it’d
probably be best to play it safe until Monday morning and check with the Judge/Executives
office or the Fire Department before burning anything outdoors.
I just can’t really comment without contacting the County Judge/Executive or his staff first.
If anybody knows for sure, feel free to post it.
Its just too big a responsibility (with consequences) for me to be guessing about.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I have received 3rd party information that the County Emergency Burning Ban has been lifted.
This is unverified information however, so if you rely upon it, do so at your own risk.
The best bet would to be to call and verify the accuracy of this information before you burn.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
According to the Scanner Scoop, Kat has also heard that the Burn Ban has been lifted.
So I’d say that it’s a pretty good call to consider it OK to have that campfire or whatever.
I was told that the information was broadcast across the scanner some time around 9:00am
this morning, and Kat has confirmed the information on the Scanner Scoop, so I feel somewhat
comfortable in publishing the information as coming from reliable sources now.
If you have to burn, then please be careful and observe safety procedures because some of us
live in, or within close proximity of wooded areas.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Saturday Nov 15th, Channel 18 confirmed that the burn ban had been lifted for Rowan County.