Burn bans issued for Dearborn, Franklin, Switz counties

Went into effect at 3 p.m. Thursday

(BROOKVILLE, Ind.) – Two county-wide burn bans have been issued on Thursday. 

Commissioners in both Franklin, Dearborn and Switzerland counties issued the ban due to a lack of rainfall, high temperatures, and high humidity.

The following activities are immediately prohibited in Dearborn County:

1. Campfires and any other form of recreation fire unless said fires are enclosed in a fire ring

measuring at least 23 inches in diameter and 10 inches or more in height.

2. Open burning of any kind using wood or any other combustible matter, with the exception of cooking grills fueled by charcoal briquettes or propane gas. Charcoal from permitted grills shall not be removed from a grill until the charcoal has been thoroughly extinguished.

3. Open burning of any kind of debris, such as timber, vegetation, building constructions waste or otherwise, with the exception of burning barrels with a 1⁄4 inch mesh top and said burning shall be permitted from dawn to dusk only; and

4.The usage of consumer fireworks.

The following activities are immediately prohibited in Franklin County:

1. Campfires and other recreational fires, unless enclosed in a fire ring.

2. Open burning of any kind using conventional fuel such as wood, or other combustible matter, with the exception of grills fueled by charcoal briquettes or propane;

3. The burning of debris, such as timber or vegetation, including such debris that results from building construction activities.

Burning will be allowed in burn barrels with a 1⁄4” mesh top from dawn to dusk only. Charcoal from permitted grills shall not be removed from the grills until the charcoal has been thoroughly extinguished.