When the weather and snow conditions are favorable, the BMFPD Mitigation Crew jumps on the opportunity to remove excess vegetation from the district’s hillsides, in the form of pile burning operations. We had such an opportunity with the heavy snowfall Mid-March with the accumulation of two to three feet of snowfall. Our firefighters took this opportunity to ignite the piles successfully and monitor them throughout the day, returning for several days thereafter to check on the piles for any heat and confirmation that they were fully extinguished.
