All open burning in Teton County has been banned by a proclamation from the Teton County Board of Commissioners. The partial fire restrictions prohibit open fires in commercial, private, and recreational activities in the unincorporated area of Teton County until further notice. A number of factors were taken into consideration by Fire Chief Brady Hansen, including the predicted fire potential, the number of regional fire starts, the condition of fuels, available firefighting resources, predicted human activity, weather forecast, and the status of partner agencies and lands. Fire Marshal Kathy Clay calls this a very critical time for fires.
A particularly active thunderstorm cell that moved through the valley Monday afternoon sparked three new fires in the area. Fire around a single tree on top of Teton Pass has been quickly controlled, but a quarter acre fire just northeast of Mt. Leidy and a tenth of an acre fire in the Snake River Canyon near Elk Mountain both are currently undergoing suppression efforts. A fourth fire seven miles north of Togwotee Pass was sparked by an earlier lightning storm and now involves seven acres. Clay says, “The afternoon lightning storms are challenging our local resources and, of course, the national resources are very limited considering all of the other fires in the nation.”
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