Open Burning in Massachusetts Requires a Permit
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WILD WEATHER, WEIRD WINTER 
NECN 03/21/16
http://bit.ly/1pGDfTb

Sudbury Fire Tower
- DCR Fire Warden Tom Muise, District 14
- DCR Chief Fire Warden Dave Celino

WYBEN FIRE, Montgomery, MA  ~ near Westfield, MA 
March 8, 2016 fire start ~ March 9 update ~ 1400

(more at:  http://bit.ly/1Yzwcat  via  WWLP22)

MA DCR Chief Fire Warden Dave Celino report:

Late afternoon: 3/8/16 Fire Start began as a smoke investigation.  Local crews located the fire in the early evening.

Fire is located in rugged terrain inaccessible by engines and partially accessible by UTV.

Fuel Type:  The fire is burning in hardwood leaf litter and mountain laurel shrub in an area with heavy gypsy moth oak kill.

Fire behavior was a running surface fire at the outset.
Overnight humidity recovery moderated fire behavior
slopes at the south end of the fire.  

The fire is currently 85% contained with 50.8 acres burned. It is in patrol status with all active fire knocked down.

Local resources will monitor the fire through tomorrow
and until an expected precipitation.  

Local Incident management team and (3) task forces have been released.  Inferred flight has been ordered for this afternoon.
This will be last report unless significant activity warrants another.

SMOKEY BEAR Prevention Materials at Work

MEET CARL ... 
a Champion for WildFire Prevention and Smokey Bear fan

Not quite 4 years old, Carl is one busy and active little guy.

Carl's grandmother, an avid Smokey Bear fan herself, contacted the Massachusetts DCR Bureau of Forest Fire Control to let us know just what Carl was doing with the Smokey Bear Prevention materials he recently received. 


Carl ....

• loves playing with Smokey Bear's whiz ring 

• goes into 'Wildfire Prevention' and 'Law Enforcement' mode once he dons his Smokey Bear campaign hat

• used his new Smokey Bear pencil to 'ticket' his grandma for starting a fire

• and apparently, because it took him a long long time to put out the fire  ...  his prevention message to his grandmother included a warning about behaving in a bad, irresponsible way and that could get her in big terrible trouble

• ... we are told that Carl has a fondness for Smokey's whistle and likes to blow it nonstop for long periods of time ... we can just imagine what any fire troublemakers will be subject to once Carl finds a use for the rest of the prevention items he finds in his Smokey Bear bag of goods.

Massachusetts DCR 
Forest Fire Control  

Thanks You, Carl

for helping us 
Prevent Wildfires 

@Smokey_Bear #SmokeyBearHug #MassDCR #Wildfire #Prevention