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Burn ban in Hays County, Texas
1/17/2018 5:33:23 PM



CATEGORIES:
Fire
Relief, Response & Restrictions
AFFECTED AREAS:
Hays County, TX

Start Date: 1/16/2018 -  
The Hays County fire marshal requested that commissioners reinstate the burn ban in unincorporated areas and extraterritorial jurisdictions of the county, to which commissioners consented. “Local fire chiefs have requested the ban be reinstated because of an uptick in brush fires, the majority of which have been caused by unsupervised burning of brush and materials,” said Fire Marshal Clint Browning in a news release. “Those fires are becoming more difficult to handle since soil is extremely dry, and grasses which fuel those fires are very dry as well.” San Marcos, Buda, and Kyle (Texas), Jan. 16, 2018
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