Mabey you should think about this from another angle? When they give you the permit, they assume responsibility for control of the fire through whatever conditions they impose on the permit... so the bottom line is that if it gets away and burns someone's house to the foundation and you followed the rules of the permit... you're not on the hook. THEY ARE. Permits are required here for anything larger than a camp fire type of thing... and they're handled by DNR for a small fee. They come and inspect the area, set the conditions for approval, etc based on the fire risk at the time and you go from there. Call them when you set the fire; call them when you're done. Follow the rules; nobody bothers you. If someone calls the fire in and the fire dept shows up, you show them the permit and they go on their way because they can't put out a legal fire. None of this would be necessary if people had any common sense anymore, but that's a rarity these days... so permits are necessary. Now if you go light something up here on a day where the fire risk is low and you don't have a permit... chances are nothing will happen to you... and probably nobody will notice. But if it gets away on you... then you're on the hook for whatever the fire damages and the cost of fighting the fire because DNR is responsible for all wildland fires and they contract municipal fire departments to do fire suppression for them... so the doer will pay. And when they have to put aircraft on the fire, you REALLY PAY then. I think the last numbers I saw were something in the range of 2k/hour for a twin huey with a bucket. $50 permit starts looking pretty cheap then. I would say in the next 8 weeks the 35 departments in this county will run in excess of 2500 calls for idiots burning grass. That should tell you how much common sense there is any more.
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