Jamestown, ND   (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 17, 2012)  —  Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist says the National Weather Service fire danger index for Stutsman County, changed three times on Wednesday.

At 11:57 a.m., the Weather Service changed Stutsman County’s fire danger index to high, and at 12:28 p.m., it was changed again to low.

Those adjustments came even though the winds were still gusting up to 45 mph. The Weather Service says, high relative humidities determined factor in this case.

The Stutsman County officials will discuss an issue, that occurred Wednesday, when, a miscommunication caused Stutsman County employees inadvertently violating the county’s burning restrictions.

At about 8 a.m., Stutsman County Park Department, Superintendent, Dennis Lorenz, informed the County Dispatch Center that he was going to burn several piles of branches on the Jamestown Reservoir Island, near the water.

The dispatcher took down the information without telling Lorenz the burn ban was in effect.

Bergquist says, it was not the dispatcher’s responsibility to inform Lorenz.

Stutsman County Sheriff’s Deputy, Sgt. Elizabeth Kapp went to the site and told county workers of the burning restrictions.

The workers put out the fire.

No citation, was issued, because the workers informed dispatch of the burn intentions.