As severe drought continues across Connecticut, the fire danger risk is again very high, state officials said.
For the second day in a row, the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection urged state residents on Friday to take precaution to avoid causing wildfires.
Forest fire danger levels are low, moderate, high, very high or extreme.
Anyone with hot charcoal should take extra care to ensure they are carefully discarded.
Any permit from a local open burning official to burn brush on property is not valid if the forest fire danger is rated high, very high or extreme and burning is done within 100 feet of a grassland or woodland area.
The state typically sees high forest fire danger in the spring, from around mid-March through May.
On a state level, DEEP’s Division of Forestry monitors the potential risk of forest fires in Connecticut’s 1.8 million acres of forested land.
On an average year, about 500 acres of Connecticut woodlands burn by forest fires.