The planned ignition time is at noon today, said Darryn Warner, natural resources program manager and wildland fire program manager with the 88th Civil Engineering Group at Wright-Patterson.
The base had a prescribed burn window that was to open at 8 a.m. this morning, but that was only a window, a base spokeswoman cautioned.
“The time and days in the post are actually a window only and not the start times,” Stacey Geiger, a spokeswoman for the Air Base Wing, said in an email Thursday. “When doing a controlled burn, there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration first such as weather, wind and ground conditions before the decision is made to go forward. The team plans to evaluate those conditions later this morning to make the decision if they will conduct the burn today. If not favorable, then they will reassess each day.”
PRESCRIBED BURN NOTICE: Wright-Patterson AFB will be conducting a prescribed burn in the Huffman Prairie area on Area A...
Posted by 88th Air Base Wing on Thursday, November 12, 2020
According to a base Facebook post, the burn window was slated to start 8 a.m. Thursday and last until 5 p.m Sunday.
The burns could take place on “various locations across the base,” the post said.
“Surrounding communities can expect reduced air quality and low visibility due to smoke,” the base said in its earlier post.
These can be regular events on the base. Base officials have said that scheduled, prescribed burns are used to maintain a healthy ecosystem on the property, and to eliminate some fire hazards.
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