The Summit County Commissioners voted unanimously  to place the county under Stage 1 fire restrictions beginning on Friday, Oct. 11. Summit County Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons told the commissioners that after a summer that saw no local fire restrictions, the restrictions are necessary this fall amid what is expected to be a dry stretch of weather. “At the beginning of spring and through the summer, we rode this roller coaster where we saw many counties west of us go into restrictions, and we never did because we stayed wet,” FitzSimons said. “Today … it was the opposite. We’re the only county between here and Grand Junction going into restrictions because their fuel moisture levels are different.” Read more ...