Maine
Wildfire Awareness Week begins in Maine
Director of the Maine Forest Service Patty Cormier stated there have been greater than 90 wildfires in Maine to this point in 2022.
MAINE, USA — As the bottom continues to dry and lose its snow cowl, the specter of wildfires in Maine begins. This week marks the start of Wildfire Consciousness Week throughout Maine.
“Stopping wildfires protects our economic system and the environment, safeguards property and the protection of Maine individuals, and preserves our wholesome, productive forests. Everybody can do their half to stop wildfires within the State of Maine,” Governor Janet Mills, D-Maine, stated.
Final week, Mills declared the week of April 17-23 as Wildfire Consciousness Week. In response to Maine State Forester and Director of the Maine Forest Service Patty Cormier, there have already been 90 wilderness in Maine in 2022.
“Eighty-nine p.c of Maine is forested, and this valuable pure useful resource is ours to guard,” Division of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Commissioner Amanda Beal stated in a press release. “Wildfire Consciousness Week is a vital reminder that almost all wildfires in Maine are brought on by individuals and are due to this fact preventable. I invite everybody to extend their consciousness of the methods we will all work to stop wildfires.”
Every day round 9:00 a.m. the Maine Forest Service updates its wildfire hazard report. You’ll be able to view the wildfire hazard in your space right here.
“Anyplace is simply as prone to get a wild land hearth. It is all about staying vigilant ensuring you are caring for your fires, whether or not it is a small campfire or ensuring you extinguish that cigarette correctly,” Grey Firefighter Bryce Neumann stated.
Neumann added you all the time must verify the hearth hazard report earlier than having a hearth in your property, whether or not it is for a brush hearth or only a small campfire.
“This time of yr every part is brown and dry, so that fireplace goes to go proper throughout [the] wooden line, garden, fairly fast. So in the event you can remove all of that vegetation that is flamable, it will actually assist in the weeks to return with wildfires,” South Portland Firefighter Nick Whitmore stated.
Whitmore urgesd everybody to verify they’ve a burn allow earlier than beginning any hearth on their property.
You will get a burn allow via the state, or your native hearth division