A fire restriction is now in place in all of Mountain View County.
It took effect on Tuesday, April 23rd and will remain in place until further notice.
Under a fire restriction, only certain activities are permitted including the cooking of food using a barbeque, fires in an acceptable fire pit or acceptable fireplace, burning only burnable debris in an acceptable burning barrel, any fire set by Fire Services for the purposes of training, any fire for which a District Fire Chief determines in their absolute discretion does not require a fire permit, fires that are fueled by compressed gas, and recreational fires.
According to Mountain View County, all current fire and firework permits are hereby cancelled, and no new fire or firework permits will be issued until the Fire Restriction has been lifted.
More details are available online at mountainviewcounty.com or by calling the County office at 403-335-3311.
To check out information on current fire bans within the province head to the website albertafirebans.ca.