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Smyrna fire staff propose tighter open-burning rules, new permits and air-curtain requirement for large burns
Summary
Fire staff recommended rewriting the town’s open-burning code to create permit categories, limit commercial burns to 20 acres with setbacks and require air-curtain destructors for large burns; council asked about health and enforcement details.
Fire Department staff outlined a comprehensive rewrite of the town’s open-burning ordinance at the April workshop, proposing new permit categories, specific setbacks and conditions for commercial and residential burns, and authority for the department to suspend burning during high-risk conditions.
The proposed structure would create three permit categories: commercial/land-clearing burns, residential yard-waste burns (for properties of at least 3 acres) and recreational fires (small backyard pits…
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