{"id":799458,"date":"2019-09-14T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=371584"},"modified":"2019-09-14T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T14:32:14","slug":"man-starts-illegal-campfire-flees-from-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/man-starts-illegal-campfire-flees-from-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Man starts illegal campfire, flees from police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials with Summit\u2019s fire districts are hoping to remind people that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-to-enact-stage-1-fire-restrictions-setting-rules-on-campfires-smoking\/\">Stage 1 fire restrictions<\/a> are still in place following the arrest of a man who started an illegal campfire and fled from police last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 7, deputies with the Summit County Sheriff\u2019s Office contacted a man past the U.S. Forest Service access gate near Boreas Pass Road after he allegedly started an illegal campfire.<\/p>\n<p>According to the arrest affidavit, officers informed the man that he was in violation of the open fire ban, and asked for his name. The suspect allegedly gave officers a fake name and attempted to run from police. He was later arrested walking along Boreas Pass Road, and charged with attempting to influence a public servant, obstructing a peace officer and violating the countywide ban on open fires. According to officials, illegal fires have been a minor issue since the ban began last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still been an issue,\u201d said Chief Jim Keating, of the Red, White and Blue Fire Protection District. \u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing this year \u2014 and it\u2019s really nothing unusual \u2014 that there have been people who have been told by forest rangers not to start fires, who wait for the rangers to leave and light them anyway. \u2026 Forest rangers\u2019 ability to do anything beyond a simple warning is pretty limited. So in those cases, they\u2019re turning it over to the sheriff\u2019s office to send a message that when they\u2019re told not to light a fire in an illegal area, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>While the county\u2019s fire danger level dropped from very high to moderate earlier this week, the fire restrictions are still in place until they\u2019re removed by county and town officials.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, Keating said that with temperatures cooling, any new moisture could spell the end of the restrictions. County, state and Forest Service officials discuss restrictions each Tuesday, and Keating said he wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see the restrictions dropped in the next week or two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate, for the most part, the cooperation we\u2019ve had from the public,\u201d Keating said. \u201cWe\u2019d normally be issuing permits for slash burns and all that, and we\u2019ve had a lot of people expecting that and calling in. But they\u2019ve been receptive and understanding, and we appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/man-starts-illegal-campfire-flees-from-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials with Summit\u2019s fire districts are hoping to remind people that Stage 1 fire restrictions are still in place following the arrest of a man who started an illegal campfire and fled from police last week. On Sept. 7, deputies with the Summit County Sheriff\u2019s Office contacted a man past the U.S. Forest Service access [&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-799458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 04:28:40","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\/799458","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=799458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}