{"id":325154,"date":"2026-06-30T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325154\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:08:15","slug":"charlotte-county-to-discuss-lifting-burn-ban-ahead-of-july-4-port-charlotte-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325154\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte County to discuss lifting burn ban ahead of July 4 | Port Charlotte News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT CHARLOTTE\u00a0\u2014 Ahead of July 4, Charlotte County commissioners are meeting to discuss whether or not to end a months-long burn ban.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks and sparklers are not allowed when there&#8217;s a burn ban in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte County&#8217;s burn ban was last reinstated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottecountyfl.gov\/news\/charlotte-county-burn-ban-status.stml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 28.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, there have been a number of wildfires in the area including in Port Charlotte off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yoursun.com\/northport\/news\/wildfire-burns-more-than-1-000-acres-over-three-days\/article_6e5cb17c-96d5-429f-837f-c157c9f9edaf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oil Well Road last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there have been several rainstorms that have soaked large parts of the county.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners are scheduled for a special meeting at 8 a.m., Thursday, July 2 in Room 119 of the Charlotte County Administration Center, 18500 Murdock Circle.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions are limited to\u00a0approval of a proposed resolution declaring an end to the burn ban, and\u00a0commissioner, administrator, and county attorney comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to attend and provide input, according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte County&#8217;s actions will not change burn bans in other counties, like Sarasota and DeSoto, which still have burn bans in effect as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE\u00a0\u2014 Ahead of July 4, Charlotte County commissioners are meeting to discuss whether or not to end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[34873,209,211,210,853,525,855,52652],"class_list":["post-325154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-burn-ban","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county","tag-drought","tag-fire","tag-independence-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}