Burning Regulations

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Originally Posted by ApS

One Friday, I noticed a brush fire from across a one-mile-wide lake. As time went on, the fire was getting closer to the edge of the lake, and flames were shooting higher than the 60-foot tall pine trees on private grounds that abutted my property. I called 9-1-1 to advise them. The dispatcher asked for the location, and I told her. Her reply was that the owners had a three-day permit to burn.

This wasn't in New Hampshire, but we also had a volunteer Fire Department, whose own station would have been threatened had the winds changed course. Fortunately, the winds must have been right, and the fire slowly smoked down and died. A development later went in, putting asphalt hither and yon, but seems to have failed after only two houses were built.

Interesting about the "seasonal permit". Is there a fee for it?

We had a permit for a brush fire and someone saw it and reported it and the fire department came. He said even though they knew we had a permit if someone calls, they have to come. That was news to me.