08/01/2024
Effective Immediately: The Range will be closed for use in accordance with the Level 2 fire restriction for the Town of Erie. Due to high fire danger we will be closing the range to all recreational and scheduled events at the Green Mill Sportsman's Club until the Level 2 fire restriction has been lifted.
From Erie PD August 1, 2024:
In consideration of the public health, safety and welfare, the chief of police (Town of Erie) has issued a level 2 fire restriction on August 1, 2024 at 1 p.m. prohibiting:
-Building, maintaining, attending or using an open fire, campfire, or stove fire on private and public lands. This includes charcoal grills and barbecues, coal and wood burning stoves and sheepherder's stoves and includes use in developed camping and picnic grounds.
-Fireworks sales, use, and possession, including otherwise legal fireworks.
-Shooting or discharge of fi****ms for recreational purposes.
-Smoking, except in an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least ten feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials.
-Operating a chainsaw without a USDA or SAE approved spark arrester properly installed and in effective working order, a chemical pressurized fire extinguisher kept with the operator and one round point shovel with an overall length of at least 35 inches readily available for use.
-Using an explosive of doing any kind of blasting work. This includes but is not limited to fuses or blasting caps, fireworks, rockets, exploding targets, and tracers or incendiary ammunition.
-Welding or operating acetylene or other torch with open flame outdoors.
-Possessing or using a motor vehicle off established roads, motorized trails or established parking areas, except when parking in an area devoid of vegetation within 10 feet of the vehicle.
Chief Mathis asks all residents and visitors in Erie to use extreme caution with anything that could potentially cause a spark, flame, or fire.
When the conditions dictate that the public health, safety and welfare is no longer in danger, the chief of police shall lift the fire restriction.