Sunny, 70 degree weather in the dead of winter. It's reason to celebrate for some, but not necessarily for local fire departments.
"Everybody's got to think fire safety on days like today," said Southern Platte Fire Protection District deputy chief Dean Cull.
"Don't smoke cigarettes and throw them out the windows, don't discard smoking materials, don't light up any fire for any reason," he said.
Cull knows. He was on-scene at Thursday's 1,300 acre brush fire.
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"Big fire," he said. "It had gotten a long way from where it originally started. It had grow pretty good, pretty quick."
And the fire warning isn't over.
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"It's still high temperatures and low humidity so and the product and the grass and all the things that can ignite are already dried out," Cull said. "We are really concerned especially in the spring if we don't get any rain, the numbers of brush fires go way up."
In order to get back on track as far as moisture is concerned, the metro would need more a foot of snow before the end of winter.
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