With spring just around the corner and with dry and windy conditions persisting make a recipe for fires.But to counteract this recipe, the Great Bend Fire Department will be issuing a burn restriction.“This burn restriction will be issued for the following townships: Buffalo, Liberty, Great Bend and South Bend,” Fire Chief Michael Napolitano said. “These dry and windy conditions are our greatest concerns along with multiple fires,” he said. “These fires and very labor extensive and required mutual aid from other departments.”The burn restriction will consist of no open burning, no campfires, no field burning and no burning of brush piles.These conditions were already the cause of two fires on Monday according to the Great Bend Fire Department.The first fire was reported a 11:33 a.m. The fire department responded to the Barton County Courthouse where there was a report of small grass fire outside to the east.