The Potter County Commissioners’ Court met in a special meeting Tuesday morning, July 7 to consider extending a burn ban, which passed easily due to the weather conditions and after several fires were likely caused by fireworks and carelessness over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Potter County Fire Marshal Mary J. Willis requested that the ban be extended along with the disaster declaration issued by the county judge July 1.
She said that the county was already around five inches behind in average annual total rainfall for this time of year…