I can see the need to shut off the power in times when high winds and temperature increase the fire danger.
But there are other sources of fires that PSE doesn't manage. That being Fireworks.
The County Commissioners need to make a fireworks ban. For ALL of Thurston county. Last year they had a burn ban in place but did NOT establish a fireworks ban. Olympia and other cities had a fireworks ban, and all of Pierce and King County had fireworks bans. So where did the idiots who have this visceral need to blow things up go to do so? Rural Thurston county, where the prairies are the highest on the list for fire. We who live on prairie habitat can only do so much to prevent fires. But when some nitnoid stops on the side of the road after dark to light off his fireworks, what can we do? Call the sheriff? Right, we've done that and dispatch says, well, we'll try and get someone out but. We've approached the idiots hoping we don't get shot, and we are threatened and stalked. All we have left is standing with a running garden hose and hope the idiot blows his own hand off. He knows he'll never be caught and if someone's house burns down, well, that's that person's tough luck.
We need a fireworks ban for all of Thurston County. For all time.
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