Extreme, extended dry conditions cause concern for Alabama Forestry Commission

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – Wednesday’s rain wasn’t sufficient to make a dent within the extraordinarily dry circumstances your entire state of Alabama has been dealing with. The Alabama Forestry Fee says the circumstances are getting harmful.

With such dry climate, fires can begin simply and unfold rapidly, destroying property, damaging land, and even threatening lives.

The Alabama Forestry Fee put a lot of the state below a crimson flag fireplace warning, urging warning on any out of doors burning and saying should you should burn or have burned in the previous couple of days, please test your fires to make sure they’re correctly extinguished.

Many cities in our space have issued their very own no-burn orders, banning out of doors leisure burning like bonfires and fireplace pits. The fee says smoking piles which are proper subsequent to flammable vegetation have the prospect to rekindle and unfold below these circumstances.

To report a wildfire, name the Alabama Forestry Fee at (800) 392-5679. Discover details about the present wildfire state of affairs in Alabama right here: https://forestry.alabama.gov/Pages/Maps/Wildfires.aspx

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