Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. -Gifford Pinchot
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
I never took you for a pyromaniac Willy.
F**K Cancer
Just Damn.
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. -Gifford Pinchot
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
When I did mine I did as others here have said. I had a CPFM on site which satisfied the insurance requirement and I broke the burn unit up into 5 blocks and treated each one as a separate fire. I did all 5 of my certification burns on the same day, sent the form in and had my certification number in a couple weeks.
As far as calling SCFC to come out for an escaped fire, fortunately I’ve never had to do that. I’ve had a few fires jump the break but its always been a situation I could handle with the equipment and personnel on scene. Fingers crossed it stays that way.
I would expect they respond just like the local fire department to help you get it under control. Then the questions start, but again if you are following the plan and it was a “reasonable” plan, it could range from “have a good day” to “now we need to get an appraiser out here to start tallying up the damage.
I wasn't sure how it really operates in the real world but, in the class, we were told the permit had to be called in by us and that made us responsible for the burn even if I had a CPFM on site. If he called it in, I could not get the credit. Further, if the CPFM didn't call it in, insurance wouldn't be available. That didn't make sense to me since they were essentially saying we had no way of protecting ourselves from liability when we had the least experience. I'm glad to hear that it's not true.
I've been on the other side of the liability issue because a private forestry service had a fire get loose and burn about 17 acres of my trees. It seemed particularly unfair because their original burn happened six weeks before it got to my place. After the fire had been declared extinguished by the Forestry Service, it rekindled six weeks later on a property that the private company didn't have access to. They had no way to monitor or extinguish smolders. The state forestry service determines who is at fault and they certainly weren't going to share any blame. Their final verdict was that the blame falls wholly on whoever struck the first match.
Last edited by Palmetto Bug; 03-03-2022 at 12:26 PM.
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