ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Virginia’s fall fire season began October 15 and ends November 30.

During that time people are prohibited from burning any trash, leaves or other items, because the chances of starting a brush fire are high.

Firefighters have been fighting brush fires in Bedford and Botetourt counties since Wednesday morning and Denny McCarthy - a forester with the Virginia Department of Forestry - said those fires are harder to fight, especially when many counties are in a drought.

“The fires that we do have are a lot tougher to extinguish. The fuels want to burn more completely, the heavier fuels want to burn more completely, and the fire wants to burn down into the ground through the root layer, and so we have to dig deeper to get the fire extinguished,” McCarthy said.

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