LAS VEGAS - Wildland fire officials will lessen seasonal fire restrictions on public lands in Southern Nevada managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Clark County and Moapa Valley Fire District on Oct. 1, 2021, by lifting the Stage I Fire Restrictions that include:
* Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, charcoal BBQ or stove fire (except a portable stove using gas, jellied petroleum or pressurized liquid fuel).
* Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle.
* Welding, or operating an acetylene torch with open flames, except by permit.
The Bureau of Land Management, Clark County and Moapa Valley Fire District will continue with year-round fire restrictions including:
* Possessing, discharging, using, or allowing the use of fireworks, pyrotechnic or incendiary devices.
* Possessing, discharging, igniting, or causing to burn; explosives or explosive material, including binary explosive targets.
* Discharging a firearm using tracer, incendiary, or steel-component ammunition. [Use of tracer or incendiary ammunition are always prohibited on public lands].
* Operating or using any internal or external combustion engine without a spark arresting devise properly installed, maintained and in effective working order. (43 CFR 8343.1(c)).
Lake Mead National Recreation Area will be lifting all seasonal fire restrictions beginning Oct. 1, 2022. The Spring Mountains National Recreation Area has also lifted stage 1 fire restrictions on Sept 26th, 2022. On the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, use of the provided fire rings at the Desert Pass campground is required. On the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, visitors are required to use grills or the provided fire rings. The use of any fire ring not provided by the wildlife refuge, rock rings, and fires on open ground are prohibited. Fire is always prohibited on the Moapa National Wildlife Refuge and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
For more information on these restrictions or others, go to https://www.nevadafireinfo.org/restrictions-and-closures
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
