{"id":5761,"date":"2012-10-18T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2012-10-18T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:57:14","slug":"to-burn-or-not-to-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5761","title":{"rendered":"To Burn, Or Not To Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hwy20fire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5571\" title=\"hwy20fire\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hwy20fire-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hwy20fire-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hwy20fire-258x175.png 258w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hwy20fire.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, ND\u00a0\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 17, 2012)\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist says the National Weather Service fire danger index for Stutsman County, changed three times on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:57 a.m., the Weather Service changed Stutsman County\u2019s fire danger index to high, and at 12:28 p.m., it was changed again to low.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Stutsman County officials will discuss an issue, that occurred Wednesday, when, a miscommunication caused Stutsman County employees inadvertently violating the county\u2019s burning restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The dispatcher took down the information without telling Lorenz the burn ban was in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Bergquist says, it was not the dispatcher\u2019s responsibility to inform Lorenz.<\/p>\n<p>Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy, Sgt. Elizabeth Kapp went to the site and told county workers of the burning restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The workers put out the fire.<\/p>\n<p>No citation, was issued, because the workers informed dispatch of the burn intentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND\u00a0\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 17, 2012)\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 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\u2019s fire danger index to high, and at 12:28 p.m., it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}