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B.C. announces total campfire ban amid huge surge in wildfires

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The website says "all campfires", but still trying to figure out if that includes propane fire pits.
- It took some digging, but the ban is on Category 1 Campfires, which I'm assuming means all the other categories are verboten as well:
  A campfire is defined as:
  Any fire no larger than 0.5 metres high by 0.5 metres wide (a fire larger than this is considered a Category 2 fire).
  Used by any person for recreational purposes or by a First Nation for a ceremonial purpose.
  The categories don't seem to care about the fuel you're using or whether it's in a pit or not; so, essentially all burning is banned for now (if I understand correctly, the announcement isn't on a BC site yet from what I can find).
  EDIT: found a map & table of the bans: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/prevention/fire-bans-and-restrictions
  
  Looks like propane firepits are not banned based on the following bulletin: https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/campfire-prohibition-coming-to-southeast/
- Propane firepits are very rarely classed as a campfire as they don't really have any ignition risk. Here in SK they are exempt from all fire bans, most of us have one in our yard for when it gets dry in the summer.
Due to the arsonists who lit the fires who have already been arrested.
- Once again a few assholes ruin it for everyone else
  
  Me, or the climate change activists lighting all of the forest fires?

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