A seven-day burn ban has been issued for Okmulgee County Monday.
Citing the forecast of warmer than average temperatures coupled with indy conditions, county commissioners issued the ban at their weekly meeting.
Under this burn ban in Okmulgee County it is unlawful for any person to set fire to any forest, grass, range, crop, or other wildlands, or to build a campfire or bonfire, or to burn trash or other materials that may cause a forest, grass, range, crop or other wildlands fire.
Any person convicted of violating this burn during a ban is subject a fine of not more than $500, to imprisonment for not more than one year imprisonment or to both fine and imprisonment.
They are urging anyone seeing a fire to call 9-1-1 or the fire department or county sheriff’s office.