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Category 2 & 3 Open Fires Prohibited Starting Noon May 7

Category 2 and 3 open fires and associated activities will be prohibited across the entire Cariboo Fire Centre including the Tsilhqot’in (Xeni Gwet’in) Declared Title Area.

Cariboo Fire Centre Information Officer Jeromy Corrigan said that will go into effect as of noon tomorrow (May 7).

“All Category 2 and 3 open fires must be fully extinguished by noon May 7 and will remain in place until noon on October 31 or until the orders are rescinded. This prohibition applies to these types of land within municipal boundaries, Parks and Recreation areas. Recreation sites, Recreation Trails, interpretive forest sites and trail based recreation areas. Also included are Ecological reserves, Wildlife management areas and Private managed forest land.”

Activities and use of the following equipment, materials and substances will also be prohibited:

Binary exploding targets

Fireworks

Burn barrels or Burn cages

Controlled air incinerators

Air curtain burners

and Carbonizers

A Category 3 fire is a fire that burns:

Material concurrently in three or more piles each not exceeding 2 meters in height and 3 meters in width. Material in one or more piles each exceeding 2 meters meters in height or 3 meters in width. One or more windrows each not exceeding 200 meters in length or 15 meters in width. Stubble or grass over an area exceeding 0.2 hectares.

A Category 2 open fire is a fire, other than a category 1 campfire, that burns material in one pile not exceeding 2 meters in height and 3 meters in width. Material concurrently in two piles each not exceeding 2 meters in height and 3 meters in width. Stubble or grass over an area that does no exceed 0.2 hectares.

This prohibition does not include Category 1 campfires that are 0.5 meters high by 0.5 meters wide or smaller.

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Pat Matthews
Pat Matthews
Pat started working in the Cariboo in 1989 after spending several years in radio in Terrace. He worked in the creative department until 2017 when he switched over to news covering Williams Lake and the South Cariboo as well as being the afternoon host on Country 840 in 100 Mile House.

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