When I worked for the FD, we would get a courtesy call, from either, our central dispatch, or from the people at Johnathan Dickenson State park, letting us know that they would be conducting a controlled burn. Which is fine, but they would do so, when we had a ban on that day for the average citizen, due to high winds. Well when we got the call, we would put our Bunker gear on, and get the brush trucks ready, and sure enough, we would get the tones, and dispatch would send us out to help them get control of the "Controlled Burn" the park was conducting. They never could understand about burning during excess winds, or maybe they just figured, we would come to bail them out. The only problem, I see, with Tim's burn, is the hen turnkeys are nesting, or have already hatched a brood, unless the raccoons, armadillos, and coyotes got them. But they may have broods big enough to get out of dodge, when the flames come their way. They are nesting out here in Montana now. We used to set fires down in the Big Cypress Swamp, to clear old growth under brush, and dead prairie grass. Within a week, new shoots were coming up. Especially if we got rain. We would try to burn when there was expected rain. The burns were pretty safe, as it was not windy, and it would only burn to the edge of a marsh, or swamp.
Wayne
