Enforcing fire pit inspection

Pine Haven Fire Chief Don Lancaster advised council at last Tuesday’s meeting that he plans to begin actively inspecting all residential fire pits within town limits.

“We have a lot of fire pits in town where people are burning wood and a lot of them probably haven’t been inspected in a long time; some of them maybe never,” he said.

“I have a real concern with that issue because we have fuel and everything else around town if anything escapes one of those fire pits because there isn’t enough clearance around it, we’re going to have quite a fire on our hands.”

Last year, ac...