(FOX40.COM) — The Cal Fire Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit announced that they have suspended all burn permits for outdoor, open residential areas, beginning Monday.

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The enforced areas are Tuolumne County, Calaveras County, Eastern Stanislaus County and Eastern San Joaquin County.

Starting at 8 a.m., the suspension includes all elevations, along with the outdoor burning of landscape debris, branches and leaves.

Cal Fire TCU provided tips on how to prepare homes and property: • Make sure to maintain 100 feet of defensible space around the home • Clear all dead and/or dying vegetation 100 feet around the structure • Find alternate ways to dispose of landscape debris like chipping or hauling it to a biomass energy or green waste facility • Land

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