diff --git a/wrfv2_fire/test/em_fire/small/namelist.input b/wrfv2_fire/test/em_fire/small/namelist.input
index 2df992f2..8423aabf 100644
--- a/wrfv2_fire/test/em_fire/small/namelist.input
+++ b/wrfv2_fire/test/em_fire/small/namelist.input
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  end_second                          = 00,   00,   00,
  history_interval                    = 5,   30,   30,
  frames_per_outfile                  = 1000, 1000, 1000,
- restart                             = .true.,
+ restart                             = .false.,
  restart_interval                    = 1
  io_form_history                     = 2
  io_form_restart                     = 2