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 Burning
Permits
Every
spring homeowners like clean up around their yards and homes.
Care must be taken while burning brush, so it does not get out
of control and cause damage to lives, property, and the environment.
Between April 15th and October 15th, a burning permit is required
by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), to carry out open
air burning province wide. Some municipalities require additional
permits, such as the Halifax
Regional Municipality (HRM) (see By-Law
0-103), Open Air Burning. HRM
has burn and no-burn zones, so you must check with the local Fire
Station to see in which area you are located.
Permits are
required so that the fire department can keep track of where people
are burning and the number of sites that are carrying out burning in
order to make sure that people are only burning brush and that they
are doing so safely. Burning outside requires the utmost care so that
your fire does not get out of control and become a brush fire, a
wildland fire, or as they are called now when structures become
involved, Interface Fires. Usually, the fine natural fuels in the
surrounding areas, such as small trees (evergreens), bushes, long dry
grass, and the dead branches found under trees will ignite readily
and burn quickly, causing a great amount of heat and flames which
causes a fire to move swiftly along the ground. This not only catches
the forest on fire, it also places homes, lives and property near the
woods in danger. This is one of the reasons homeowners must have the
proper equipment on site to control the fire or put it out. Some of
these items would be a garden hose, buckets of water, shovels, rakes,
etc. This is why a burning permit includes burning restrictions on
it, so that the fire can be carried out safely.
For more
information or to purchase a burning permit, please contact the Hammonds
Plains Volunteer Fire Department at 832-2315.
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