Show dahlquist named fire warden county coordinators to carry on the 1948 utah cooperative fire fighters program for the coming summer were made last week by J whitney floyd of logan state coordinator sheriff bernard dahlquist was made morgan co county anty coordinator and horace andrews of the soil conservation service was appointed as his assistant asi stant i the annual area of graz grazing ing watershed and timber lands burned in utah has been greatly reduced each year since 19 1912 12 according to mr air ployd floyd I 1 however lo wever the number of fires has remained approximately the same each year much credit for the fact that our fires burn less area goes to an awakened public interest in the prevention and quick suppression of fires the people of utah have shown their appreciation of cooperative fire prevention and control by going out wholeheartedly to reduce the damage by fire to our natural resources private companies and county and state departments who can help the program as they fulfill III their regular duties have given and are giving great assistance to fire prevention and control work A continued successful fire prevention and control program can only be carried on through the excellent cooperation of our citizens and our public departments |