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Show Nat'l Parks Service fire fighters to Mont. The Cedar City office of the National Park Service sent two of its professional fire . ",-;hters to Glacier National Park in Northern Montana to assist with the suppression of forest fires now raging out of control in that area. Construction Cons-truction and Maintenance Representative Re-presentative Joe Davis anil j Staff Park Ranger Robert I 'Jake" Metherell, both as-j signed to the Cedar City office of the Park Service, left at daylight August 25 by Chartered Char-tered aircraft (Dixie Aiilin. v I for Kalispell, Montana. From Kalispell, the men will be flown by helicopter to the fires. General National Park Service Ser-vice Superintendent Karl Gilbert, Gil-bert, Cedar City, says that Glacier National Park has at least four fires burning and that others are expected. Dry lightning storms, along with an extended drought, has been the source of the trouble. |