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Fire Prevention
Forest Rangers work with organized town fire departments to keep fires in municipalities to a minimum. Arsonists cause 1 out of 5 wildfires in Maine, costing taxpayers thousands of dollars each year. An arson hotline has been established to help minimize the number of arson fires in Maine. Forest Rangers enforce fire prevention statutes that work to minimize the impacts of wildfires such as laws dealing with open burning permits, failure to extinguish a fire, and violations of open burning permit restrictions.

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[Maine Forest Service, Department of Conservation]
22 State House Station, Augusta, Maine 04333-0022
Phone 207-287-2791   In State 1-800-367-0223   TTY 207-287-2213   Fax 207-287-8422

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