{"id":798934,"date":"2019-08-27T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=370636"},"modified":"2019-08-27T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:47:33","slug":"fire-danger-increases-to-very-high-as-red-flag-warning-is-forecast-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/fire-danger-increases-to-very-high-as-red-flag-warning-is-forecast-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire danger increases to very high as red flag warning is forecast Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO \u2014 Very high fire danger will go into effect Wednesday morning along with a red flag warning from the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Dry, windy days recently have \u201cdecreased the fuel moistures very rapidly and significantly\u201d in timber and grass, according to Summit Fire &amp; EMS chief Jeff Berino.<\/p>\n<p>A red flag warning also is in effect Wednesday for most of Summit County from noon to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Winds of 10 to 20 mph, and gusts of up to 35 mph, are expected along with relative humidity as low as 11 percent, according to the Weather Service alert.<\/p>\n<p>The hot, dry and windy conditions are expected to create extreme fire danger.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1 fire restrictions are in effect in Summit County. Those restrictions prohibit the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any open fire unless expressly authorized.<\/li>\n<li>The use or sale of recreational fireworks.<\/li>\n<li>The use of tracer ammunition or any other projectile containing incendiary materials.<\/li>\n<li>The use of recreational explosives, including exploding targets.<\/li>\n<li>The disposal of any burning object outdoors, including cigarettes, cigars and matches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On U.S. Forest Service land, the following is prohibited:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire or stove fire \u2014 including barbecues and grills \u2014 except in a permanent fire pit or grate within developed recreation sites.<\/li>\n<li>Smoking, except in an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is cleared of all flammable materials.<\/li>\n<li>Operating a chainsaw without a USDA or SAE approved spark arrester and a minimum 2A rated fire extinguisher.<\/li>\n<li>Welding or operating acetylene or other torches with an open flame, except in cleared areas of at least 10 feet in diameter and with a fire extinguisher.<\/li>\n<li>The use of any explosives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fire-danger-increases-to-very-high-as-red-flag-warning-is-forecast-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO \u2014 Very high fire danger will go into effect Wednesday morning along with a red flag warning from the National Weather Service. Dry, windy days recently have \u201cdecreased the fuel moistures very rapidly and significantly\u201d in timber and grass, according to Summit Fire &amp; EMS chief Jeff Berino. A red flag warning also is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:34:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}