GREAT FALLS — In the video above, reporter Paul Sanchez talks with Brad Call, the Disaster & Emergency Services (DES) manager for Cascade County, about burn permits.
DES provides the following information:
- Do not set fires during the period of this permit when the weather or other conditions make it hazardous to do so.
- The permittee must have sufficient manpower, tools, and equipment at the burn site to control the fire.
- The fire shall be watched by the permittee or his or her agent until no live embers or smoke remain from the fire.
- The Burn Permit covers vegetative material only. It does not cover such items as, but not limited to:
- Chemicals or Synthetics Such as Rubber or Plastic
- Dead Animals
- Household Garbage
- Treated Wood
The following items are prohibited from being openly burned in Cascade County at any time or place.
- Any materials resulting from a salvage operation
- Automobile bodies and interiors
- Chemicals
- Dead animals or dead animal parts
- Food Wastes
- Insulated wire
- Oil and petroleum products
- Pathogenic wastes, hazardous wastes, trade wastes
- Poultry litter and animal droppings
- Styrofoam and other plastics
- Tires, rubber materials, asphalt shingles, tarpaper
- Treated lumber and timbers
- Wastes generating noxious odors
- Wood byproducts other than trade wastes, such as Papers or cardboard, unless public or private garbage hauler or rural container system is unavailable
For more information, call 406-454-6900 or click here.
