CLARKSVILLE — Pink River commissions voted to position the county beneath an instantaneous 90-day burn ban throughout its assembly Monday within the Courthouse Annex.
“I’m not telling you to difficulty one or not, simply what the situations are,” mentioned Kevin Boyd, of the Texas A&M Forest Service. “It’s sizzling and dry so issues are going to burn.”
He informed commissioners that he went again over information and 2011 was one of many hottest within the area.
“Situations are the mirror picture right now that it was in 2011,” he mentioned.
He offered the July report from the Nationwide Interagency Hearth Middle to the commissioners which says, partly, that there’s an above regular hearth potential round Texas.
“Excessive hearth conduct on a number of current fires have been noticed on the southern Plains and parts of central and jap Texas amid the background drought,” the report mentioned.
He additionally offered graphs from the Nationwide Climate Service exhibiting that the realm is abnormally dry.
Phyllis Stanley, president of the Pink River County Firefighters Affiliation, was glad to see the ban put in place.
“I’m extraordinarily pleased as it’s getting drier and drier,” she mentioned. “It’s harmful for firefighters to be on the market in 104 diploma climate combating fires. It’s not an excellent state of affairs.”
She added that previously week Pink River County volunteer firefighters have battled 35 fires.
The ban doesn’t prohibit out of doors burning associated to public well being and security comparable to firefighter coaching; public utility, pure gasoline pipeline, or mining operations; planting or harvesting of agricultural crops; or burns which might be performed by a prescribed burn supervisor licensed beneath Pure Assets Code.
Violators of the ban, which is Class C misdemeanor, are topic to a fantastic to not exceed $500.
Commissioners additionally accredited a bond for District Clerk Brenna Williams and appointed Chris Harvey to the Pink River County Appraisal Board of Administrators to fill an unexpired time period that ends Dec. 31, 2023.
The courtroom additionally accredited the calendar of holidays for all county staff for the approaching calendar yr.
