ties around the reservation have ….
ties around the reservation have rescinded burn bans. Green grass today is not a license to act free-or-easy with fire. Dead grass is still tall.
Outlooks still predict a summer hotter and drier than normal. If you light any fire, you must stay with the ashes until every warm spot is dead out, cold to the touch.
Have plenty of water and machinery ready to extinguish any fire before you light anything — even a cigarette later this summer. As it dries, grass is like the moving hot air of a clothes dryer. Wind or heat gives fire a “Goldilocks” or tipping point when little flames suddenly turn giant, out-ofcontrol and regrettable. When we can’t keep a fire small on a windy day, it becomes harder to contain as we get a much larger fire. Drought snaps that point to us.
BIA Fire will help control larger fires again this year only with help in preventing fires from our children, farmers, teens and other sources of unplanned human- caused wildfires.
