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Light conditions can lead from 2025 at the beginning of the controlled burning season

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Rauch could fly over the Flint Hills in the beginning of next week.

High temperatures in the 1960s and 70s this week and next weekend will certainly melt the snow, which has apparently been locked up since the beginning of January. With the stubborn snowfall in the past few weeks, the controlled fire season has not yet started-in contrast to past years in which landowners were often burned or carried out by mid-January.

Jarrod Fell, Emergency Management Director of Lyon County, says that the residents have to report their burns to the district authorities both before and after these burns. The easiest way is to go to the Lyon County website Lyoncountyks.gov, to find the online combustion process button on the top of the page, to click on the “Report a burn” link and continue from there.

Fell also calls on people to have enough water at hand, only in the event that things are not as planned.

Fell reminds the residents of never burning when the national weather service issues red flag warnings – the official warnings for critical fire. Speaking of the weather, says Fell, that landowners have to pay attention to the weather forecast for afterburning diseases in order to reduce the risk of recindle.

While grasses dry quickly, the floor underneath could be muddy for a few days, which means that firefighters may have to do with stuck devices if they have to be called.