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Show I - . . . s , . i I N ' f - ' ' ( ; - - f ' " ; I 'I' . - - I """""" " "" ; J ? I 1 ' j r i i I i I .' I """' KW w 4 si , . I-.'. I w, ' f y : ' i. .. y , .. 4.- - I.I ) ... ..-crrVx -i FIRE TROTECTIOX PERSONIFIED These men have been very busy the past few weeks directing: dir-ecting: fire fighting in Salt Lake County from this dispatching center in their new headquarters building. L toR County Fire Chief Frank P. Jones, Assistant Fire Chief A R. Ilarman, and Jack Ungricht, dispatcher on duty. Hot Weather And Dry Grass Keep County Fire Dept. Busy; Operate From New Hq. Station Salt Lake County's fire department, de-partment, officially ensconced in their new headquarters only last Saturday, has had an exceptional ex-ceptional busy week, responding to an average of six to eight fire calls per day, with some days running as high as 12 and 13 calls. Most of the fire calls are to put out grass and brush fires, largest of course, being the two that have raged during the week along the Oquirrh Mountains on the west side of the valley. Wednesday morning firemen came in from an all night battle with flames that had sprung up from a fire that had burned nearly 2000 acres in the Camp Williams area. This was believed be-lieved under control, Tuesday, but broke out again Tuesday night. As of Wednesday morning morn-ing all county fire fighting equipment was again back from the area after the fire was once ' more surrounded and the mopping mop-ping up operations left to the National Guard and Forest Service. Ser-vice. The County Fire Department, which for many years was headquartered head-quartered in a building at 4725 South State in Murray, recently moved into a beautiful specially (Continued on page 2) (Continued from page 1) built building at 3S60 South Main Street. The. new building was opened for public inspection inspect-ion and scores of persons went through the facilities last Saturday. Sat-urday. Although it has been occupied for about two months, this was tabbed as the "official opening". , The beautiful building was completed at an economical figure of $75,000, exclusive of the land, which the county already al-ready owned. It houses four fire engines and the department's depart-ment's two ambulances, which are on service to assist in traffic traf-fic accidents, being closely coordinated with both the County Sheriffs Department and the Highway Patrol and also on calls for other emergencies emer-gencies through the sheriffs office and the County Hospital. The new building also has well-equipped dormitory facilities fac-ilities for eight men, with bunks, kitchen, shower and locker room, and a lounge and reading read-ing room, complete with a TV. There are 16 full-time firemen assigned to the headquarters for the other eight. During the day their "hurry-ups" and boots are ranged conveniently alongside along-side the fire engines with their fire coats and helmets. During the night the "hurry-ups" "hurry-ups" and boots arc by the side of the cots where the men can slip into them -find be on their way in less than ten seconds. Another fire station with a full time crew on duty was just completed at 61th S. in Union. Other stations, with volunteer crews are located at Kearns, Magna, Riverton, West Jordan, Lark, East Mill Creek, Holladay, and Draper. At the last three named stations there are two full time men. All stations are operated under und-er the direction of battallion chiefs, with the overall supervision super-vision coming through County Fire Chief Frank P. Jones, and his assistant A. R. Harman. |