{"id":3,"date":"1999-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/1999\/12\/07\/open-burning-season\/"},"modified":"1999-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"open-burning-season","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/1999\/12\/07\/open-burning-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Burning Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open burning is permitted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts between January 15 through May 1. Burning is allowed 7 days per week between the hours of 10am-4pm (weather permitting).<br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>To obtain an open burning permit, you must apply in person at the Fire Department Headquarters located on Hudson Road. Once a permit is received, it is valid for one entire season but may be revoked if all laws stated in MGL 148, 527 CMR are not abided by.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Such burning laws include:<\/P><br \/>\n<OL><br \/>\n<LI>You may burn brush only. No leaves, trash, tires, hay, etc. is permitted.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>The fire must be kept at least 75 feet from all dwellings.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>A water source must be present and accessible at all times while burning.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Tools, such as a shovel or rake, should be kept near-by.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Burning of brush for commercial land clearing is prohibited.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>An adult must tend to the fire at all times.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Fire are only permitted during the dates and times mentioned above.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>All types of accelerates are prohibited.<\/LI><\/OL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burning permits are now being issued at Headquarters. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/1999\/12\/07\/open-burning-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Open Burning Season\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}