Why include backyard grills in burn ban?

Published 1:30 am Monday, August 7, 2017

I thought they must be joking. With the sky all but obscured from the worst wildfire smoke in memory, we’re told not to use charcoal grills or have beach or camp fires. Really?

Not sure how curtailing these summertime activities will make one iota of impact on the wildfire smoke we’re enduring. Where were our bureaucrats when the common sense gene was handed out?

Greg Burnside

Edmonds