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Article: RESIDENTIAL BURNING BAN TO TAKE EFFECT IN LAKE TAHOE BASIN
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit issued the following press release:
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit's Forest Fire Chief will suspend residential burning, also known as "dooryard burning" effective July 15. These residential burn bans will include both California and Nevada communities throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Warm and dry weather has finally moved into the basin this season, and fire protection officials made the move to end dooryard burning due to increased risks in and near ...