Exercise Caution to Prevent Wildfires

On Monday, March 4, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn called upon Pennsylvania residents to exercise wildfire prevention vigilance throughout a three-month period when major fires are most likely across the state’s forests and brush lands.

“Because of seemingly endless rainy periods, Pennsylvania’s 2018 wildfire season was relatively short-lived in the spring, but conditions can change almost overnight,” Dunn cautioned. “Lack of foliage, strong sun and drying winds all cause fire danger in our woodlands to spike rapidly.”

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