Apparently, several Wabash County residents chose not to heed the burn ban that has been lifted. Fire commissioner Susan Zimmerman reported at Monday’s City Council meeting that several of the department’s runs over the last two weeks were to extinguish small brush fires that violated the burn ban. The burn ban was lifted last week after we received the first significant rain in more than a month. Mt. Carmel firefighters made a total of 18 runs the last two weeks, according to Zimmerman.