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City of Ramsey 15153NOWTHEN BOULEVARD N.V~., RAMSEY.MINNESO'~A55303 ,, (612) 427-3410 I November 5. 1991 F & R Enterprises Suite 679, Buffer Square Minneapolis, MN 55454 To Whom It May Concern: I am writing to inform you of the necessity to abate a fire hazard on property north of U.S. Highway #10 and Burlington Northern right-of-way in the City of Ramsey, between Puma Street on the west and east towards Armstrong Boulevard. There exists several acres of bulldozed windrows of dead and rotting pine trees, and man3' more acres of over-dense pine plantation. Attached for your review are prior communications regarding f'n-e safety and disposal. In order to protect the health and fire safety of residents and adjoining businesses from consequences of accidental grass fire, certain measures need to be taken to abate this hazard: 1) A plowed and disked 300 foot minimum firebreak parallel to the Burlington Northern Railroad fight-of-way along the South border between the piles and pines. The long dry ~ass presents the possibility of accidental ignition from train or highway; and 2) 3) 4) Additional internal plowed, disked or scraped firebreaks need to completely surround and separate the piles from the standing pine trees, connecting to the south border firebreak; and Continue firebreak maintenance throughout the fire season; and The windrow piles need to be dispersed or disposed of. Heavy equipment can be used to break apart and landspread or surface spread and abate the fire and smoke hazard of partially rotted piles; or The windrow piles can be processed by a flail hammer or whole tree chipper and land spread on-site; or 6) Material can be hauled to Anoka Count3,, Wood Waste Disposal Site on Hanson Boulevard or other disposal site; or 7) Other permanent disposal plan can be considered. You need to also consider thinning the over-dense standing pine plantation remaining. This would increase the vigor and the health of the remaining trees and decrease the fire hazard. For your information, certain marketable and land restoration value exists for chips and pine poles. The City of Rarn.~ey Fire Chief, DNR District Forester and Fire Warden have technical information available about adequacy of firebreak construction. Thank vou for vour prompt consideration.