• Verify it is a permissible burn day. • Burn only dry, natural, vegetative materials, including leaves, pine needles, and tree trimmings. • Do not burn trash or construction materials. • Provide at ...

The city of Longmont and the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program plan to conduct slash pile burns at Button Rock Preserve, approximately 7 miles west of Lyons, beginning Dec. 1, ...

Tropical storm Ophelia soaked the Washington area last weekend, leaving behind, among other impacts, fallen limbs and sticks scattered around. Instead of becoming landfill or incinerator material, ...

CENTRAL FLORIDA — Now that Hurricane Ian has left Florida, the post-storm cleanup has begun. The following are details about pick-up procedures provided by the counties and municipalities. Debris ...

With daylight saving time ending in less than a month, fall has well and truly arrived. Autumn is a favorite time of year for many in North Carolina, with the Western region of the state in particular ...

LEAVE PENDING THE INVESTIGATION. WELL, SOME NEW DETAILS ON THE RECOVERY IN ROSELAND NOW, AS WORK STRETCHES INTO ANOTHER WEEK TO CLEAN UP NEARBY WATERWAYS AND ALSO SITES. HOWEVER, THE OVERNIGHT RAIN ON ...

Depending on whom you talk to, the proposed new defensible space rules for "zone zero" will help save homes in very high fire hazard severity zones, or decimate much of Southern California's urban ...

RALEIGH – The open burning of trash, metal, plastic and all other man-made materials not only harms the environment and poses a public health risk; it’s against state law. During the summer and fall ...

NORTH CAROLINA (WECT) - The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) Division of Air Quality is reminding the public that burning trash is illegal. According to the DEQ, burning of ...

Why build a brush pile? A mound of woody, vegetative material, even a small one, can furnish as beneficial wildlife cover. Brush piles are one way to provide shelter from predators and storms for ...