KEVINGTON-AREA BLAZE WILL LIMIT FUTURE FIRES.Byline: Daily News THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Firefighters set 250 acres ablaze Thursday in the Kevington area off Erbes Road and La Granada Drive to prevent future outbreaks, authorities said. Despite blowing winds elsewhere, the canyon area of the controlled fire was well within the parameters for a prescribed pre·scribe v. pre·scribed, pre·scrib·ing, pre·scribes v.tr. 1. To set down as a rule or guide; enjoin. See Synonyms at dictate. 2. To order the use of (a medicine or other treatment). burn, officials said. ``We burn in several canyons and each canyon has its own weather,'' Ventura County Fire spokeswoman Sandi Wells said. ``We are not allowed to burn if the winds are over 15 miles per hour, and with these canyons, the wind is below that.'' The guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. also include no burns if temperatures are below 60 degrees or above 90 degrees. A prescribed burn reduces the heavy brush to prevent a wildland fire and allows grass to grow, providing food for deer deer, ruminant mammal of the family Cervidae, found in most parts of the world except Australia. Antlers, solid bony outgrowths of the skull, develop in the males of most species and are shed and renewed annually. , rabbits and other small animals, Wells said. ``The smaller game will have more food, and with the food cycle the hawks Hawks , Howard Winchester 1896-1977. American filmmaker whose works include His Girl Friday (1940) and The Big Sleep (1946). and bigger animals will have more food because there are more smaller animals,'' she said. The Kevington area is a fire corridor, which saw several hundred acres go up in 1991. A meteorologist was at the scene monitoring the situation. |
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