Snider: News of the county

With all due respect to the Farmers’Almanac, the month of April certainly didn’t produce many showers around, so I’d like to remind everyone that the danger from wildfires this spring and summer is very high.

Pinal County’s Air Quality Department has ceased issuing burn permits for the unincorporated areas of the county. The only exceptions to the ban on open burning are those farming operations that have already received a permit for agricultural burning.

As for the general public, we all need to be careful of how we dispose of flaming, flammable, smoldering, and/or burning materials.

If we’re out for a drive in the countryside, the utmost in caution needs to be exercised: Don’t park on roadside shoulders where there are high grasses. The underside of your engine block or exhaust system is hot enough to start something smoldering even after a brief stop in high weeds.

Let’s all do our best to keep our grasslands, farms, and homes safe.