A fire ban in place right now would hurt Dauphin farmers who are following the rules.
Since the end of April, 85 burning permits have been issued.
Cam Abrey, Dauphin Fire Chief, responded to nine fires in two weeks.
“The other eight fires we’ve had, because we have only responded nine times in the last two and half weeks, the other eight incidents never had a permit in place. So if we put a burn ban in place at this point and time, it eliminates all permits that are out there. We don’t want to punish those that are following the rules by putting a ban in place totally.”
Some of the fires have attributed to farm equipment hitting wires, a grader creating sparks while maintaining roads and sparks created by a train on the tracks.
