Cal Fire SLO offers citizens advice when to mow to prevent brush fires
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – Cal Fire SLO fire personnel advise citizens around SLO County when to mow and trim weeds to prevent wildfires.
Below is a press release on the announcement:
During the month of July 2024, CAL FIRE/ San Luis Obispo County Fire Department responded to multiple wildland fires due to mowing, weed eating and disking. Knowing When to Mow means - mowing, weed eating and disking prior to 10:00 AM, never on windy days and always with a water source available.
California Public Resource Code 4442 requires spark arresters on internal combustion engines.
Lawn mowers are for green lawns not for dead/dry vegetation. Once a lawn mower is used on dead/dry vegetation such as annual grasses the blades on a lawn mower can strike rocks or metal objects within the dead/dry vegetation. The strike will cause a fire.
Weed eaters used in dead/dry vegetation can also start a fire via metal blades, wire in the string, metal head and the heat of motor/exhaust once placed in dead/dry vegetation.Â
Tractor Disking in dead dry vegetation can cause a fire due to the metal disks striking rocks in dead/dry vegetation will cause a fire.
For more information, please visit www.ReadyForWildfire.org.
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