What are STAGE 2 Fire Restrictions? STAGE 2 Fire Restrictions help land management agencies reduce fire risk and prevent wildfires during periods of high to extreme fire danger. PROHIBITIONS • No building, maintaining, attending or using open fire, campfires or stove fires. • No smoking unless in an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or within a three foot diameter cleared to mineral soil. • No operation welding, acetylene, or other torch with an open flame. • No operation or using any internal or external combustion engine without a spark arresting device properly installed, maintained and in effective working order. EXEMPTIONS • Persons with a permit specifically authorizing the prohibited act or omission. • Resident owners and leasers of land within the restricted area are exempt from above restriction provided such fires are within the residence. • Any Federal, State or Local Officer or member of an organized firefighting force in the performance of an official duty. *A stove fire is defined as a campfire built inside an enclosed stove or grill, portable brazier, or a pressurized liquid or gas stove, including a spaceheating device.