Show STATE FIRE BOARD SETS CLOSED FIRE SEASON during the spring of the year if ithe the weather is clear and warm we look into the great blue ball of the sky and predict a summer season of high fire hazard this kind of spring weather eweather is conducive to early vegetable growth and early plant maturity it is after the vegetation becomes mature and dry that it will burn rapidly and fiercely if it matures early we can expect a long fire season or during the spring instead of gazing into a great blue ball we may be peering into a grey sky drizzling moisture down onto our utah soil in fact it may be a cool wet late spring this means to these people thinking of fire that the vegetation will grow thick and rank when the weather does docs warm up surely sooner or later it must mature and become dry making it a fire hazard the fire season may not be as long as usual but it has the possibility of being very severe no mater what type of spring weather we have we know that any approaching apro aching summer season can bring with it great danger of many and severe fires for thid teason reason the period from june 10 to october 1 has been declared a closed season to fires by the state board of forestry and fire control so if you must burn you may secure a permit to do so from the county sheriff or county fire chief who will issue the permit after he is satisfied that the fire can be limited to the proposed area and when he feels that weather conditions make safe buring possible |