Colorado campfire regs.

[RGINN]

Just a heads up. The law now is it shall be unlawful to leave unattended or fail to extinguish a campfire on any property belonging to the Division of Parks and Wildlife, or any forested or grassland area. Violation of this used to be a $50 fine, but now it's $50 up to $750 and 6 months in jail. Being asleep beside a live campfire will be considered unattended. Fire season will be bad this year and restrictions will start earlier, and hopefully we will see some stepped up enforcement on this. Campfire safety is a no brainer for most of the folks on here, and a lot of our fires start up from campfires made by the homeless but not jobless crowd that live in the woods. Nice folks usually, but not much outdoor skills.

 

[Johnnybravo300]

The majority of our fires are caused buy them and start as "controlled burns". Happens the same every year. It's about 7 out of 10 fires are caused by them, yet they still blame us haha.
Ticketing someone sleeping next to a fire is simply harassing and collecting which is the agenda.
They like to do their burns when the wind is blowing at 80 mph for some strange reason.

 

[RGINN]

You're right about those controlled burns in a large part of the state. I think the military started one up by live fire training a few days ago. They don't do very many controlled burns right around here, luckily. Hopefully the only tickets issued for being asleep by a campfire is when open fires were banned anyway or you have a tractor tire on the fire and were more passed out than 'sleeping'.