1. Every timber owner or operator operating during the fire season shall have a fire protection organization and program for the prevention and suppression of fires on operating areas. The timber owner or operator shall make immediate and continuing attack on all forest fires occurring in his or her operating area and upon adjacent lands owned or controlled by the operator, employing his or her normal logging crew and equipment to the extent necessary to suppress such fires, and he or she shall observe the following practices:

(a) Perform loading, equipment servicing, welding and other hazardous operations over bare ground that extends at least 10 feet on all sides from such operations.

(b) Obtain permits for blasting from the local forest officer, as required by law. A worker shall remain on the scene for at least 1 hour following any blasting.

(c) Each year the timber owner or operator shall give written notice to the State Forester Firewarden of the timber owner’s or operator’s intent to commence logging operations on a specified area, prior to the commencement of operations. The State Forester Firewarden shall then furnish a standard fire plan form which the operator shall fill out and return to the State Forester Firewarden not later than 10 days prior to commencement of operations.

2. The fire plan shall be observed and shall include at least the following:

(a) Names of all personnel having responsibility in fire suppression, indicating their duties and line of authority.

(b) Location and number of persons ordinarily available for fire fighting.

(c) Arrangement for receiving reports of fires at any and all times during the dry season, and arrangement for summoning the crew both on and off shift.

(d) Lists showing the type, number and location of tools and equipment reserved for use only on fires, and, also, those units of regular operating equipment that may be used for fire fighting.

(e) Legal description of logging area.

3. The State Forester Firewarden may promulgate such additional reasonable rules and regulations as he or she may deem necessary.

[8:355:1955] — (NRS A 2017, 1391)