Burn Ban Issued for Gregg County
Posted/updated on: August 10, 2013 at 4:42 pm
LONGVIEW — Add Gregg County to the list of counties that have issued a burn ban. The burn ban was issued today to take effect immediately. Gregg County Judge Bill Stoudt tells KETK he thought about waiting until the first of the week to start the ban, but thought it would be better if it was issued now. Stoudt says Gregg County has reached 700 on the Keetch-Byram Index, a scale used to measure forest fire potentials. Besides Gregg County, other burn bans are in effect in the counties of Harrison, Henderson, Kaufman, Marion, Panola, Sabine, San Augustine Shelby and Upshur.
