I can't believe some people

I'm not against trying to make the populace smarter but you can't fix those who don't believe the news, those too ignorant or arrogant to believe that the law applies to them, or the fire bugs who are setting the fires on purpose.

IMHO, when we have had day after day of 90 degree plus heat and single digit humidity instinct should dictate that having an open fire is a bad idea. How many non-believers does it take to set large areas on fire? Just one.

1 match, 1 idiot and POOF goes everything!!

Good question how you get the information across to those who need it.

How do you get the information across to parents who let their kids run around the mountains on other private property trespassing, drinking, smoking and drugging? Where are the parents?

Oh forgot to mention the adults who are trespassing, drinking, smoking and drugging and shooting firearms.

Now mtntrekker, Don't talk about My neighbors that way!! ( )

you can't fix stupid

and it doesn't matter what their primary language is!!!

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: you can't fix stupid

No but sometimes a good beating results in some sort of intelligence rebirth.

If I didn't speak the language and I saw a picture of a fire with an international circle and red line across it, I'd figure it would mean no campfires. I wouldn't connect it to prohibiting a charcoal fire.

jf1acai wrote: AFAIK, only one of the recent significant Colorado wildfires has been determined to have been caused by a camper.

While I agree that uninformed (or whatever term you prefer) campers have started many illegal campfires, and have left many of those unattended, causing unnecessary expenditure of firefighting resources as well as concern to residents, I do not believe that the 'dumb flatlanders' should be the primary concern.

Many of the illegal and/or unattended campfires have been started by local homeowners.

Many of the fire ban violations have been local homeowners who were not aware of, or did not understand, the fire restrictions in place at the time.

For those fires not caused by lightning, excluding arson, I think that better education of all is the solution, starting with better dissemination of the fact that fire restrictions exist. Perhaps notices to all USPS mail addresses?

I also think that the fire restrictions/bans are unnecessarily difficult to understand. Perhaps a better approach would be to list those activities which are permitted, and all NOT mentioned are prohibited?

Regarding arson, I don't have a good solution for preventing/reducing that. Perhaps more situational awareness on the part of residents, reported to authorities either at the time or after an incident develops, might help?

Just trying to encourage more proactive solutions to the problem.

I can't believe my neighbors...I have had to call the authorities more than once for riding dirt bikes up and down their property, or shooting firearms. They surely understand the rules after the first contact, but they just have no regard for rules, which I find is common in "these here hills."

I've been calling the authorities for 12 years about the same folks and they continue to break the law and I continue to call and I don't know if the authorities even respond...I generally don't see them.

What I am trying to say is there is a lack of regard for rules around here by many who live here. And, I think our Sheriff stinks, since the neighbor in question is an old high school buddy!

Regarding better information transfer I so agree. However, I do think the NOTs should be the most important since it never occurred to me that off-road vehicles are completely banned from use; as are gas operated small equipment like a weed-eater or lawn mower. I am happy about the off road things though I can actually hear my radio with the windows open now :crossed:

It is frustrating when folks seemingly don't think to check on things under the circumstances.