FOREST FIRE DANGERS Arson, Dry Conditions Make For Explosive Wildfire Problems
Reported by: Bob Aaron
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Reported: Nov. 20, 2012 5:56 PM EST
Updated: Nov. 20, 2012 6:10 PM EST
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Belle
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
Dry, warm conditions have state fire foresters urging people not to burn yard debris until it rains hard again.
More than a dozen wildfires are reported in southern West Virginia today.
While it is still legal to burn from 5 in the afternoon until 7 a.m., Fire Forester Tom Oxley urged people not to burn outside at all until there is " significant rainfall."
Arson is suspected in several forest fires, but the largest, a 1,000 acre blaze in Boone County, is blamed on an underground mine fire. It was still burning Tuesday inside fire lines.
60 acres burned in Lincoln County in a suspected arson fire. Another large blaze was reported Tuesday near Belle.
Oxley says several fires in Kanawha County were set.
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