![]() ![]() The burn site is located within an unrestricted area. Any land clearing wastes burned under (A) must be at least 1,000 feet from any neighboring inhabited structure(s), and pile size is limited to 10 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. The open burning of land clearing waste requires written permission from SWOAQA. ![]() “The Fire Department indicated that land clearing wastes were burned in violation of Ohio Administrative Code Rule (A). The Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency addressed their letter to Liberty Way Farms to Reynolds’ Liberty Township home nearby: “It’s classified as an unauthorized burn because no permit was pulled through the Ohio EPA (the entity responsible for issuing open burn permits),” a township spokeswoman explained in an email Wednesday to FOX19 NOW. “I believe, due to the response of the person on site, that a warning letter would be the better course of action.” “This appeared to be a clearing waste (fire) since no crops or livestock are on the premises,” the chief wrote Wagner on Tuesday afternoon. Advised he would not obtain an EPA permit and was very uncooperative.”įOX19 NOW requested comments from Reynolds and his attorneys multiple times for this story but did not hear back. ![]() So we need to have a discussion with him,” the chief told a dispatcher.Īn email about the fire from Liberty Township Fire Battalion Chief Jason Knollman to Ciara Wagner, an environmental compliance specialist with the Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency, reads: “The property owner on site refused to extinguish the fire, he also refused to obtain the necessary burn permit. So what’s happening is the person that’s doing the open burn, uh, he’s a pretty prominent person in the community and he’s refusing to let us put it out. “Yeah, we need a sergeant to go out there. The chief reached out to dispatch and requested a supervisor with the Butler County Sheriff’s Office join firefighters to help at the scene, according to a recording of the call. ![]() Fire Chief Ethan Klussman contacted the county’s 911 center and said a battalion chief was the one who got the call. ![]()
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