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On the year's shortest day, South Metro Fire Department conducted the first experiment with winter burning in greater Denver below 6400'.
On the year's shortest day, South Metro Fire Department conducted the first experiment with winter burning in greater Denver below 6400'.  At 6400'- 7000' elevation in winter, burning in the metropolitan airshed may occur only on days with no air advisories ('blue') and between 10:00 and 16:00 if other permit conditions also are met.  Several burn bosses are working with APCD to test the same conditions below 6400,' where to date no burning at all is allowed in winter.