Did you know that the fire department doesn’t issue or have any control over agriculture burning permits? They are actually issued by the state Department of Health, with basic concerns about smoke.

Front page headline, Chico E-R, Thursday, November 2, 2023: “Burn Day in Chico,” accompanied by a large color photo of a smoldering pile of woody debris, “in a cleared orchard … in southwest Chico on ...

I wish my neighbors would burn less wood. I am writing now because, although this is a perennial problem, at least one of my neighbors has been burning a lot of wood this season, and the air around my ...

I saw a short news item in the paper that announced the burn ban had ended due to a change in the weather (“Clark County Fire Marshal Dan Young ends burn ban,” The Columbian, June 13). This came as a ...