Due to persistent drought conditions, the Princeton Fire Department has imposed an open burn ban across all areas it protects, including the City of Princeton and the Princeton Rural Fire Protection District. This ban also overrides the city’s fall landscape waste burning period, which was scheduled to begin Oct. 1, under city ordinance Sec 10-231. At this time, no landscape waste burning is allowed. Officials will reassess the situation later to determine whether the Nov. 30, deadline for landscape waste burning will be extended. Residents are urged to comply with the burn ban to prevent fire hazards during this dry spell.