#WalkingClub101: What to know about prescribed fires

What is a prescribed burn?

How is it set?

Is it safe for wildlife?

Sarah Phinney sat down with Hillsborough County's Chris Kiddy to get some of your questions answered in this week's #WalkingClub101.

Hey, everybody.

I have beeand comments about prescritopic for walking club onwith Hillsborough County abreak it all down for us.here, Chris.

Thank you forto be here and talk to eveclub.

So first things firsdon't know what is a prescfire.

We like to say it'sand reduce wildfire risk.throughout history.

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And that's whencase.

Where if lightning wa really, really powerfulwe're trying to do is burnmanner.

Is there a time ofburns happen more frequentpurposes?

We like to burnseason, spring and summer.we will burn during the wiso there's no time of yearis going to be prescribedIt's all year long.

How canear preserves and parks wplace, find out when it'sreally challenging to knowburn, because we don't knoof if we're going to haveSo what we've done is we hhc fl gov dot net Rx fire.to that page and we put alon there that morning.

Andup to get an email notificis something new.

We justlast couple of weeks.

So your notification, let evercan be on that list and saprescribed burn at Bell Crnotification will let youclose or anything like thaand be prepared.

If you'rehiking in one of these sitit.

I mean, what should soget to a preserver?

A parktaking place.

So if you shpreserve and if the not evclose down the trails so,monitoring which way the wis me going.

So if we canthe trails, most times we'all the trails open.

Um, sthe burn, but you'll be faby chance you do get theregonna be closed because ofhave signs of notificationthat were not being monitosee anyone there.

But younot necessarily the case.prescribed fire, there isThey're monitoring every aUm, and that might be somebefore, responded, first rout there and stuff, but iwe have to write an actualthe exact weather conditioour plan is to control thaall stuff.

We have to submget our authorization to bprescriptions, we actuallymembers we will need for tthere was always a crew thevery last aspect of thatto know.

How does it affecendangered species?

How muso not to destroy mating obirds, insects and fish.

Yquestion.

And everybody waknow, where does the wildlfor wildlife?

You know, whwe actually do this for thdid not do prescribed burnin these habitats would noright amount of food thatthese species survive.

Soburn fire down on the grounutrients that allows allshrubs and things to startAnd that basically provideplants and wildlife on manreally need fire by doinga wildfire.

So that actualthe wildlife, too, becausechance to move to unburnedused to go for tortoise bufrom the fire.

Um, and weexits for them to get outthe fires, which obviouslyduring a wildfire.

So evenlike maybe from the humanare being reborn.

Reborn,like to use the term PhoenLife will rise.

If we didecosystems would completelsource.

That these animalsI have seen some commentsknow, people go to the notCounty.

This happened up iand then they're disappoinhas taken place.

But, I meto people when that you kngo see a bunch of green anI would I would tell somebbe excited about that newto pop up and what that'sAnd honestly, I take a litlike right now that just bthe contrast with the otheAnd, you know, think aboutlook like in a few days angonna start popping up andthat are gonna start cominand keeping that balance aAnd nature is trying to acThank you so much, Chris,today.

I really appreciate