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Outdoor welding was actually prohibited, because of a statewide burn ban that had gone into effect the previous day. [11] Weather caused the fire to spread rapidly; the fire marshall of nearby Stillwater, Oklahoma said in an interview that the winds were blowing at 20 miles per hour (8.9 m/s) and that the high temperature was 107 degrees ...
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The 2024 Texas wildfires were marked by several major fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle and part of Oklahoma. The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned an estimated 1,058,482 acres (1,653.878 sq mi; 428,352 ha) in Texas and Oklahoma and was completely contained on March 16, [ 1 ] becoming the second largest fire in US ...
Light burning is also been called "Paiute forestry," a direct but derogatory reference to southwestern tribal burning habits. [52] The ecological impacts of settler fires were vastly different than those of their Native American predecessors. Cultural burning practices were functionally made illegal with the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911. [53]
Refuge Manager Amber Zimmerman said there have not been any impacts to public use facilities, the visitor center or the parallel forest.
Outdoor burning includes trash fires, fireworks, or prescribed burning of fields. The county issues a burn ban if it feels that the drought conditions combined with outdoor burning poses a danger ...