THERE IS A COMPLETE FIRE BAN ON DENMAN ISLAND. NO CAMP FIRES, NO BEACH FIRES, NO OPEN BURNING OF ANY KIND.

High risk activities are now on morning shift. After three (3) consecutive days of “High”, cease activity between 1:00 PM and sunset each day. Maintain a two hour fire watch

“High risk activity” means mechanical brushing; disk trenching; preparation or use of explosives; using fire- or spark-producing tools, including cutting tools; using or preparing fireworks or pyrotechnics; grinding, including rail grinding; mechanical land clearing; clearing and maintaining rights of way, including grass mowing; any of the following activities carried out in a cutblock excluding a road, landing, roadside work area or log sort area in the cutblock:

  • Operating a power saw;
  • mechanical tree felling, woody debris piling or tree processing, including delimbing;
  • welding;
  • portable wood chipping, milling, processing or manufacturing;
  • skidding logs or log forwarding unless it is improbable that the skidding or forwarding will result in the equipment contacting rock;
  • yarding logs using cable systems;