Yesterday afternoon at approximately 4:00pm firefighters from Tarkington, Cleveland and Highway 321 Fire Departments fought a fire which was directly caused by a person who disregarded the Liberty County Burn Ban. Numerous Fire Fighters, Fire Apparatus and resources were allocated to combat, contain and control this fire on Tarkington Prairie.
This region is under a drought with very little rainfall in the last 4 to 6 months. These conditions along with high warm winds and dry timber combine into prime conditions for a raging fire which could damage, destroy and kill anything in its path. While simply “burning my trash” may seem like a “right” or “privilege” , fire is not something to gamble with. This fire could have been much more destructive by burning down several residences nearby and killed horses located in an adjacent pasture. The wear and tear of Firefighters and their equipment is also a serious consideration. Accidental and Electrical fires are tragic enough, however, fire such as these, which can be prevented by just obeying the Burn Ban. These fires are a terrible tax on the Fire Departments as a whole and our community.
In this incident, the person responsible had dug a large “burn pit” near several structures, including a residence. A fire had been intentionally ignited earlier in the day and allowed to burn down and smolder. However, with the warm high winds and extremely dry conditions, the fire was able to re-ignite and spread. With the high temperature and no cloud cover, firefighters worked tirelessly through the harsh conditions to rapidly bring the fire under control and save the residence which was threatened by the spreading fire.
As a reminder, the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office want to warn citizens there is a “zero tolerance” policy in place for any Liberty County “Burn Ban” violation. Any person found in violation shall be subject to being issued a Criminal Citation and can be subject to Criminal Arrest.
10 comments:
Sheriff Patterson is a credit to the Republican Party.
there's also a zero tolerance for corruption! Probably why we have this drought.
Was that person arrested for burning during a burn ban?
NEWSFLASH: the liberals are at it again. The biggest scoundrels get nominated for awards and hall of fame. Here's two examples:
1. Cleveland's city inspector, who, almost single-handedly caused some 30 businesses to vacate or go out of town- gets employee of the month at last Tuesday's council meeting! (this is how they show the opposition that their thoughts don't matter.)
2. KSHN's Bill Buchanan gets a hall of fame membership- big deal, you can throw it farther than you can sell it! (you'll notice the arch liberals behind it (chamber of commerce, dem's, etc.)
see:
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/cleveland/news/article_7c330d69-4281-50a5-b776-514e6bf4b81a.html
Cleveland has the same situation, with the biggest political disasters featuring themselves in the museum (duhhNesa, Barnett's, city council, chamber, first baptist (monopolizing all political positions and boards), pd (the gun room scandal), vfd (the pilfered funds problem)- all at taxpayer expense, of course. What a joke!
"BURN BAN" means NO BURNING! What is wrong with the people out in the county? A number of them think that they are "royalty" because they have been here for several generations and that the laws do not apply to them. Times are a'changin' out here boys. City slickers are moving in and will not tolerate this "royal" attitude for long. It will rain before long and then you will be able to burn! Until then,obey the law, period.
Henry Patterson is, pure and simple, a good man, doing his job in a fair, just and law-abiding manner.
does that mean that dennis s can't burn his tiki torches?
sure he can, so long as he sits on them, lights them, them farts!
lmao, literally!
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