Donley County Judge Jack Hall this morning signed an order banning the sale and use of fireworks, and Gov. Rick Perry this afternoon extended that ban through the July Fourth holiday.
Perry’s decision comes at the recommendation of the Texas Division of Emergency Managment, and his extension will expire at 7 a.m. on July 5, 2011.
The local fireworks ban, which was good for only 60 hours prior to the governor’s extension, was included in a county disaster declaration signed by Hall today.
The disaster declaration cites the lack of rainfall and continuing hot, dry conditions as posing the threat of large wildfire which could endanger “lives and property on a large scale.” It also states that current conditions make the threat of disaster “imminent.”
Hall’s disaster declaration is in effect for seven days unless the commissioners’ court extends the declaration at their meeting next Monday.
The judge said Briscoe, Hall, Gray, Collingsworth, and Armstrong counties are all passing similar measures to help prevent wildfires
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