ALTERNATIVES TO BURNING

• Make a compost pile out of small organic materials

• Burn limbs in your fireplace or stove

• Till vegetative waste materials into the soil.

• Haul debris to the Sheridan Landfill (it's free and they compost it).

BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE.

DO:

Consider Alternatives to Burning.

Be Considerate of your neighbors.

Call your Fire chief and/or Sheridan Police Department Dispatch Office shen conducting flarge burns.

Call WDEQ-AQD when conducting burns over 1250 cubic feet (More stringent regulations apply).

Be aware of weather conditions.

Be aware of Fire Restrictions.

Learn more about the dangers of refuse burning and disposal alternatives, visit EPS's Backyard burning website at 

http://www.epa.gov/msw/backyard

DO NOT:

Burn Prohibited Materials such as tires or other natural or synthetic rubber products, oil or oil filters, insulated wire, plastic, PVC, tar, tarpaper, asphalt, asphalt shingles, railroad ties, painted or treated wood products, batteries, hazardous waste, explosives or ammo, asbestos in any form, or materials which cause dense smoke discharges.

WHOM TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION:

     Story Volunteer Fire Department Chief:
     Rex Cahhal           683-2541

     Story Vounteer Fire Department Deputy Chief
     Terry Cahhall        683-3045

     Story Volunteer Fire Department Captain
     Mike Onstott         683-2140

     Story Fire District Board Chairman
     Doug Madison        683-3100

     Story Fire District Board Member
     Bill Canfield             683-2515

     Story Fire District Coordinator
     John Lunbeck         683--3088

     Sheridan Police Department
     Dispatch Office       672-2413       

     Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality - Air
       Quality Division      WDEQ-AQD
       Sheridan Office       673-9337

This brochure made possible by cooperative efforts of the T.S.F.S. Community Action Grant Program and the  Story Fire District's Wildfire Assessment & Mitigation Plan
March, 2005