No more s’mores? The traditional campfire is rapidly becoming less common as drought and climate change increase the dangers.
, at least 331 of them were lit by humans, with another 41 having unknown origins. So, it stands to reason, with more people spurred into the wilderness by the pandemic, the chances of one inadvertently starting a wildfire goes up.And campfires rank among the top three ways we start wildfires, according to data being tracked by Kayli Yardley, the prevention and communications coordinator for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.
“You will be held responsible if you start a fire,” Gov. Spencer Cox said last week from Tooele County, with another wildfire, the Jacob City fire, burning miles behind him. “You will be held civilly responsible and you may be held criminally responsible if you violate any laws in starting that fire.”
“I think it would be beneficial,” she said. “But everybody has that typical camping :’ I have to have a wood-burning fire.’ Right? ‘It has put off the smoke, that’s part of camping, that’s part of the experience.’ And I can push and say, ‘Well, heck, you can do that with a propane pit as well. It has the on-off that makes it even better.’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah, but it’s just not the same.’”
“There’s [typically] all this time spent every night singing and just talking around the fire — and sitting around a lantern is not the same,” she said. “Which you’re not, like, trying to move your chair, dodging the smoke, but there’s no comfort in it. Like, everybody’s wrapped in their blankets, and you just want to go get in your tent.”“One of the uncles just brought, like, different kinds of bad cookies,” she said. “It was so sad.
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