While the weather warms, vegetation dries and the fire season gets underway, new firefighters were busy last week learning how to fight this summer’s fires.

Cooking Supply  About 100 were busy earning their first level of certification while another 100 attended part time to earn advanced certification and receive training in leadership, advanced fire behavior and advanced fire investigation.

Smoking is prohibited while traveling, except in vehicles on improved roads, in boats on the water and on sand or gravel bars that lie between water and high water marks that are free of vegetation.

Open fires are prohibited, Cooking Supply  including campfires, charcoal fires, cooking fires and warming fires, except at designated locations. Portable cooking stoves using liquefied or bottled fuels are allowed.

Cooking Supply All motor vehicles must be equipped with one gallon of water or one operational 2 1/2-pound or larger fire extinguisher, one axe and one shovel, except when traveling on state and county roads. All-terrain vehicles and motorcycles must be equipped with one operational 2 1/2-pound or larger fire extinguisher, except when traveling on state and county roads.

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