Certainly, people can wait a while before burning their vegetation. We need a good, soaking rain -- really, a few, probably -- before people can breathe a little sigh of relief. |
Heck, even when you put a burn ban in, that's not going to be the be-all, end-all. You're going to have people burning anyway. |
I don't see a lot of relief in sight. We need rain -- badly. |
It got kicked back up today. |
It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change. |
That is wonderful news given the proximity to some of the homes out there. |
We are studying the weather hard every day. If this weather model continues, it may become prudent for us to reconsider whether to have a burning ban. |
We could be looking at a very heavy spring fire season. |
We mapped it with GPS, global positioning system, after some of the smoke had cleared out and we found it was smaller than we had originally thought. |
Yesterday, we would have said, 'No.' It was very dry. We had single-digit relative humidity and it was extremely dry. |
You can look across the state and what may normally be a fire that didn't escape, that a landowner could contain, you're seeing fires that are getting away from folks. We're looking at a real critical period in North Carolina. |