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The Newscaster/Nature Coast News

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Don't Burn Down The House

A Guest Commentary by Darryl Diamond

Buddy & Fred’s Hardware Store

The Florida Department Of Ag-

very few sparks and glow-

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riculture and Consumer Services has a Di-

ing ciders float out into the

vision Of Forestry. That agency issues free

open air. I had a big Oak

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pamphlets on Forest Fire Laws, and Open

tree limb trimmed off this

Burning Regulations for any yard waste

year so my burn pit had

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burning conducted at your personal home.

no chance of igniting the

Rules were made tighter in November 2005

limb with “Floating Glow-

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after several huge fires burned out of con-

ing Cinders”. The setbacks for legal burn-

trol in several areas of Florida the previous

ing are 25 feet from forests, and 25 feet your

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years. Authorization is still not required for

home. From paved public roads the setback

a property owner that wishes to perform out

is 50 feet, and your burn pile must be 150

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door burning of yard waste as long as set

feet from other occupied buildings. If your

backs are met, and there are no local laws

pile for burning is more than 8 feet in diam-

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in place to limit burning in your area at the

eter, you will require an authorization from

the Division of Forestry, you must have sup-

From time to time individual coun-

pression equipment on hand, and you will

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ties throughout Florida enact temporary or-

need to meet additional setbacks. The pam-

dinances because of drought or other special

phlet further states that escaped debris that is

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conditions. Usually after a few months the

still burning is one of the leading causes of

ordinances are changed back to allowing

wildfires in Florida.

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outdoor burning again. To comply with state

So the final tips are to not burn on

laws, the yard waste you wish to burn must

windy days, keep and water hose, and shov-

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have been generated on your property, and

el at close hand, and finally make sure your

will fit in a non combustible container or

smoke does not obstruct visibility on near by

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you can legally burn up to an 8 foot diam-

roads. So the point of this article is, do not

eter pile. Smoke can not be a nuisance, and

burn down the house, because then it will

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your fire should be ignited after 9AM, and

make it really hard to sell in this market. So

extinguished one hour before sunset. The

here s to happy, safe burning.

pamphlet goes on to state that it is illegal

With this installment I leave you,

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to burn household garbage (including pa-

my loyal readers for a while. I started out in

per products), treated lumber, plastics, rub-

2007 for just a few weeks and it turned into

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ber materials, tires, pesticides, paints, and

over 150 articles. I hope you all enjoyed the

aerosol containers in your outside burn pits.

journey, I did. Your resident real estate ana-

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When you use a non combustible container,

lyst is Darryl Diamond 352-447-4442 I ll

you should have a wire mesh cover for it so

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