 Exceptionally dry conditions throughout the area have contributed to several small wildfires over the past week. It's rare, but not uncommon to have these conditions during the dog days of summer. The Bemidji Fire Department has the area's status listed at its high risk for wildfires. If we don't receive any rain within the next few days, we could see the risk for fire danger increase. While there are no burning bans currently in place, firefighters are asking everyone to act responsible when having a campfire. A complete burn ban is when you can't have campfires. So campfires, though, you're not allowed to burn any brush, yard debris, garbage, anything like that. It has to be logs, three foot ring contained by rocks, bricks or something like that. And it has to have, it can't be within 25 feet of a structure and it has to have a manicured grass all around it. Unrelated to the dry conditions, the Bemidji Fire Department will not be issuing any burning permits at this time because of an air quality alert that has been issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The alert was issued because of smoke from Canadian wildfires currently moving into the state. The air quality alert will be in effect through noon on Sunday.