Plumas County Fire Safe Council, Terra Fuego Resource Foundation and their partners need a favorable window of opportunity to implement pile burning in Boyle’s Ravine south of downtown Quincy. The plan is to burn this winter.
Air quality impacts reductions are a priority. The burn boss looks for a weather pattern that includes a low pressure weather system overhead and winds blowing from the north to increase the likelihood of dispersing smoke away from the community.
Once TFRF identifies a burn date, it will issue a notice to the community with a press release to The Plumas Sun, email, social media and posted notices around Quincy. TFRF wants to give as much advance notice as possible. Burning will take place for multiple days once it begins.
Inevitably, Quincy residents will see and smell smoke once burning starts. If possible, make sure to have a household air purifier or find alternatives and reduce outdoor activities. As with smoke from wood stoves, smoke will settle at night under evening high pressure also known as an inversion. Residents in need can borrow up to eight air purifiers PCFSC.
American Valley Community Services District, in partnership with PCFSC and TFRF, will us this fuels reduction and burning project to reduce future wildfire impacts and to restore forest health. PCFSC received a grant from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy for the project.
PCFSC, TFRF, American Valley CSD, SNC, Quincy Volunteer Fire Department, CAL FIRE, Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District, and other partners collaborated on the project. Plumas Audubon Society prepared the original plan.
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Information provided by Plumas County Fire Safe Council
