FREE ACCESS: Officials plead with residents to stop burning
(Local News ~ 10/16/22)
SIKESTON — Despite burn bans being in place throughout the region, local fire crews have battled a higher-than-usual number of vegetation blazes in the past several weeks, and they have one, clear message for residents: Stop burning. “We have been extremely busy with fires started from burning trash and/or cleaning the property. There is a countywide burn ban in effect,” Scott County Rural Fire Protection District Chief Jeremy Perrien said...
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