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Renting a house on the beach near Gouldsboro, is it permissible to build a fire on the beach there? This would be a purely sit around and have a beer with friends, possible steam/cook some sort of food fire not for trash.
Did you try calling the Town Office? Which, in typical Maine fashion, is in the same building as the Fire Department-lol. The site lists the Town Office hours as M-F, 8-4. Phone: (207) 963-5589. You're going to need to talk to someone who actually knows whether or not you can have a fire in that location, rather than someone on this board. I think it would put quite a damper on an relaxing evening to have all 3 of the Gouldsboro fire engines showing up at your vacation home because someone reported a fire!
go ahead and build your fire. fires are allowed as long as they are enclosed, all you have to do is build a fire pit with some rocks or a iron firering. you wont be doing anything wrong.
I thought there was a loophole in the fire permitting rules in Maine that allows fire to be built for the consumption of food?
When we were kids we used to go out to Sears Island on the low tide, cook up steamers and mussels up until the great State of Maine and all their wisdom decided to build a mega-road out to the island only to put a fence up and keep us out of there for the "betterment of all".
We used to go up to Cobscook Bay and do the same thing on Little Deer Island until the Land Consevency took over that island as well. I think we can all thank the environmentalists for ruining long standing traditions in Maine "for the betterment of us all" or is that, "for the betterment of them?"
Sorry to be so bitter but we have lost an enormous amount of freedoms in the 35 years of my life. Building a fire, drinking a beer and steaming up some mussels and clams should fall under the "life, liberty and prusuit of happinesss" our forefathers died for in the Revolutionary War. My Great Grandfather would be sideways mad that he drove out the French and Indians out of Maine in 1755 only to have his Great Grandson in 2010 be forced into getting a fire permit to steam a few mussels 255 years later.
I thought there was a loophole in the fire permitting rules in Maine that allows fire to be built for the consumption of food?
When we were kids we used to go out to Sears Island on the low tide, cook up steamers and mussels up until the great State of Maine and all their wisdom decided to build a mega-road out to the island only to put a fence up and keep us out of there for the "betterment of all".
We used to go up to Cobscook Bay and do the same thing on Little Deer Island until the Land Consevency took over that island as well. I think we can all thank the environmentalists for ruining long standing traditions in Maine "for the betterment of us all" or is that, "for the betterment of them?"
Sorry to be so bitter but we have lost an enormous amount of freedoms in the 35 years of my life. Building a fire, drinking a beer and steaming up some mussels and clams should fall under the "life, liberty and prusuit of happinesss" our forefathers died for in the Revolutionary War. My Great Grandfather would be sideways mad that he drove out the French and Indians out of Maine in 1755 only to have his Great Grandson in 2010 be forced into getting a fire permit to steam a few mussels 255 years later.
The point of building the fire is okay, but it has to be on your own land. In Maine, landowners can own the property all the way to the low water. You could be trespassing on some ones property.
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