One of the better ways of preventing wildfires, especially prairie fires, is to ban fireworks. THROUGHOUT the COUNTY. The Commissioners have no problems with installing a burn ban but last year only the cities banned fireworks, the Commission didn't ban fireworks for any of Thurston County unincorporated areas, which are mostly rural areas with grass land or forest. The cities are far safer than rural areas when it comes to fire.
And NO fireworks also means No 'Sky lanterns". those things are basically paper bags with a candle underneath them to carry them into the sky. We've found burnt out lanterns in the past, the morons who set them alight and into the sky don't live here so they don't really care about the possibility of setting the prairie alight. A few years ago when we had a bad drought, we caught a woman with her kids about to set off half a dozen sky lanterns at Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve. She was ANGRY because, 'they're not fireworks, they LANTERNS and pretty." She could NOT..or refused to..understand the danger she was putting total strangers in.
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