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Show The Forest Fire Menace The forest fires of last fall have caused a reform to be started. It is thought by use of portable telephones that fires can be prevented. Rangers in the national forests will be supplied with portable telephone'sets t and with a special flexible wire which can be easily and quickly run along the ground to isolated places in the forests. The telephjnes will be of use in summoning sum-moning help to prevent a repetition of the disastrous conflagrations in the northwest last August. The adoption of these telephones is the result of experiments conducted since last summer with sets similar to those used by the signal corp3. Prevention of large fires has been furthered since la3t' year, through lengthening trails and extending permanent per-manent telephone lines. When the fire season arrives an extra force of rang ers will penetrate the isolated parts of the foreots, laying their telephone lines along the ground as they go. Metal boxes containing fire-fighting implements, imple-ments, together with a supply of food have also been distributed along the many traiis wh;re they will be easy of access. |