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Show New Utah - Thursday. April 8. 2004 - Page 9 Fire departments try to prevent illegal burning in county By Justin Hill Utah Valley staff Even before the open burn season has begun, 6ome homeowners are beginning to burn their yard waste - using fire-fighting fire-fighting resources and breaking the law. Last week, with nearly four weeks to go before the start of the open burn season, sea-son, the Lehi Fire Department Depart-ment responded to nine illegal burns - usually small brush fires. The warm weather that descended on the valley has led to a few more people peo-ple burning weeds before the season begins, said Lehi Fire Capt. Ricky Evans. "It has picked up a little bit," he 6aid, though the increase hasn't been extraordinary. But burning out of season sea-son can commit firefight-ing firefight-ing resources to those calls, and could hamper the local departments if a subsequent fire call comes in, Evans said. Because the department depart-ment is volunteer, every call means firefighters are called away from home or from work. There is an appropriate time for these types of fires. Beginning April 17 and ending May 17, residents can legally burn yard waste in cities where such burning is allowed. The burning must take place during daylight hours and on days the Division of Air Quality deems burn days. Some cities, including American Fork, Saratoga Springs, Lehi and Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, as well as unincorporated unin-corporated Utah County, require permits to burn. Fruit growers, farmers and those with irrigation ditches can generally burn any time of the year, provided pro-vided they first notify their local fire department. depart-ment. Sometimes residents see columns of smoke from those burns and think it is OK to burn, state Fire Marshal Gary. A. Wise said. "Usually, people are not intentionally trying to break the law," he said. The Division of Air Quality develops rules on burning, which are more for air pollution than fire safety, Wise said. The rules basically allow county fire marshals to establish a 30-day peri od between March 1 and May 30 for residents to burn yard waste. While the Division of Air Quality makes the rules, fire departments enforce them. ' But fire departments are normally reasonable and advise residents burning burn-ing illegally of the laws, Wise said. People who burn illegally illegal-ly could receive a citation. With the open burn permits, per-mits, firefighters know where controlled burns are taking place. When fire departments give out the permits, firefighters have the opportunity to offer safety tips, such as having a hose and a shovel shov-el nearby when burning, Wise said. There is also liability associated with burning. If smoke from a burn fills a neighboring home and causes smoke damage, the person who lighted the fire is responsible, Wise said. On the whole, most fire chiefs would like to see no burning allowed, he said, but because it's a part of Utah County's agricultural agricultur-al heritage, it's difficult to overcome. Saratoga Springs Fire f f. : ' ? ' t : Z it . - . - f . - .;, ' - " j - ? :. A resident ignites dry weeds and brush around a caned Saratoga Springs last Saturday. Chief Dave Vickers said to one to two doten people he tries to discourage residents resi-dents from burning. Though his department hasn't responded to an illegal burn call this year, Vickers said he has talked about the burn rules. In the past, the city had minor problems with illegal burning as people who didn't know about burn laws moved into the Photo by Matt Smith during a controlled burn in city. "That's the problem you run into in a real fast-growing fast-growing community," Vickers Vick-ers said. "The biggest thing is educating the public." 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