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Columbia County adopts emergency resolution to impose temporary outdoor burn ban
Summary
Columbia County officials adopted an emergency resolution imposing a temporary ban on outdoor burning devices, other lawful outdoor burning, and certain pyrotechnics, citing drought and recent brush fires; the measure will be reviewed about every 10 days and placed on future consent agendas until conditions change.
Columbia County officials adopted an emergency resolution imposing a temporary ban on outdoor burning, including certain outdoor burning devices and sparklers, saying drought conditions and recent brush-fire activity prompted the measure.
An unnamed official read the resolution into the record, saying it is "a resolution declaring a state of local emergency and to place a temporary ban on outdoor burning devices, other lawful outdoor burning, and prohibition of the use of flared explosives and sparklers." The reader said the text includes…
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