City of Centennial issued the following announcement on July 7.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office has implemented a Stage 2 fire ban. Restrictions are currently in place for unincorporated areas of Arapahoe County, Centennial, Fox Field and Deer Trail.
Stage 2 means no fireworks or any other outdoor fires including, but not limited to, campfires, fires in constructed, permanent fire pits or fire grates within developed camp and picnic grounds and recreation sites; charcoal fueled fires, warming fires, fires in outdoor wood burning stoves (chimney sparks or embers); the prescribed burning of fence lines, fence rows, fields, farmlands, range lands, wild lands, trash and debris.
Exemptions:
Fires contained within liquid fueled or gas stoves, fireplaces and wood burning stoves/fireplaces within habitable buildings.
Propane/LP/Natural Gas fueled barbecue grills used for cooking or warming food, which do not produce or emit sparks or embers when used.
Charcoal fueled grills and pits used for cooking or warming food, which do not produce or emit sparks or embers when used.
Propane/LP/Natural Gas fueled fire pits that do not produce or emit sparks or embers when used.
Fire set by any federal, state, or local officer, or member of a fire protection district in the performance of an official duty.
Public fireworks displays supervised by appropriate firefighting/public safety personnel and supported by adequate equipment assigned to be on the scene of such permitted.
Original source can be found here.
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