{"id":25502,"date":"2012-06-15T05:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T10:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=25502"},"modified":"2012-06-15T05:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T10:47:28","slug":"drought-conditions-result-in-burn-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/06\/15\/drought-conditions-result-in-burn-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought conditions result in &#8216;burn ban&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW<\/em> <em>County EMA information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hot, dry weather conditions have significantly increased the risk of fires, enough so that Van Wert County Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy has asked for ban on burning until conditions improve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25503\" style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/McCoy-Rick.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25503 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/McCoy-Rick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EMA Director Rick McCoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI have contacted the mayors in Van Wert County and requested they enact a \u2018no burn\u2019 ban in their respective jurisdictions, effective today,\u201d McCoy said.<\/p>\n<p>With the drought expected to worsen across the area (areas in Indiana are currently under moderate drought conditions, with many communities there having village or countywide burn bans in effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conditions will worsen across Van Wert County, as no rain is expected through Wednesday, with temperatures in the low 90s,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cThe big culprit is low humidities of 20 to 30 percent every day and humidity in the 40s at night, creating fuels for fire events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayors in Willshire and Convoy have already issued bans on burning within those communities, with other communities expected to follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW County EMA information The hot, dry weather conditions have significantly increased the risk of fires, enough so that Van Wert County Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy has asked for ban on burning until conditions improve. \u201cI have contacted the mayors in Van Wert County and requested they enact a \u2018no burn\u2019 ban in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 10:57:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}