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Jim Wells County court implements 90-day burn ban as KBDI spikes
Summary
Emergency management presented KBDI readings and the commissioner's court voted to implement a 90-day county burn ban, keep a burn-notification process and allow lifting if conditions improve.
The Jim Wells County Commissioner's Court on Feb. 28 voted to implement a 90-day county burn ban after Emergency Management presented elevated Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) readings.
Emergency Management Coordinator Lance Brown told the court that the county’s KBDI was approximately 608 as of the day before the meeting, above the county’s 500 threshold for extreme drought-like conditions. Brown said the ban would let agricultural burners with adequate resources and…
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