Contact: Amy Baumer (Public Affairs
Officer)
208-756-5145
August 27, 2018
STAGE I FIRE
RESTRICTIONS TERMINATED
Salmon, Idaho: The
Central Idaho Dispatch Zone in Idaho will end Stage 1 fire restrictions, effective
at one minute after midnight (12:01 AM) on Friday, August 31, 2018.
The Central Idaho Fire Restrictions Area encompasses all Forest Service
(outside of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness) within the
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)–Salmon and
Challis Field Offices, along with State Lands and privately owned forested
lands within the Central Idaho Dispatch Zone.
#KnowBeforeYouGo. A
campfire can be one of the best parts of camping, or provide necessary warmth
to hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts. Just don’t forget your
responsibility to maintain and extinguish your campfire to prevent
wildfires. Fires can start quickly and will burn
in vegetation that seems green but is drying
out. Remember, if it’s too hot
to touch, it’s too
hot to leave; pour water and
add dirt to your campfire until it is cold. One spark is
all it takes to start a wildfire.
Never leave a campfire unattended.
Although fire danger across east-central
Idaho is HIGH, fire management officials opted to move out of
restrictions because fire danger indices, which is a relative number indicating
the severity of wildland fire danger as determined from burning conditions and
other variable factors of fire danger, are moving downward and fall is less
than a month away.
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