Please click on individual images to ENLARGE April 8, 2011, view of open burning of debris from destruction of a house on S. Hill Avenue that is to be sold soon to the Regional National Cemetery Association. Completion of the sale is contingent on the lot being totally cleared of trees and structures and utility wires and pipes by the current owner who has been renting it to low-income people.
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There's a significant reduction in number of out-of-control fires when a city or county has a burn ban, so failure to ban "controlled burns" in dry windy weather is odd behavior.
Does anyone know why Fayetteville and Washington County have no burn bans? (Even when neighborhing counties have them.)
Why do we have "red flag" (unenforceable) instead?
Probably because few people are outraged over the stupidity of outdoor burning. A big public outcry could get more enforcement of the existing law and go back to the time when ALL outdoor burning except in small barbecue pits was illegal in Arkansas.
I've seen Aub talking to many of the Tea Party folk after some public meetings on that streamside ordinance. If they could understand the expense to taxpayers of dealing with uncontrolled 'controlled burns' they could start a petition to get outdoor banned and/or true burn bans issued BEFORE conditions turn really deadly.
How about you suggest some of those people, Aub?
You'd need to get Rash Limbergur to insist that open burning is a way to reduce property rights to get that done, friends.
People who flaut the law by burning when conditions are dry and windy are simply inconsiderate or worse. Leaving a fire untended or burning at night apparently doesn't result in fines unless major damage is done, apparently.
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