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Show Fire Damage Held To inimism; Officers Elected .. Damage to property from fires in Springville during 1958, resulted in only about $3000, it is indicated in the annual report re-port of the fire department to the city, making the past year one of the most fortunate so far as fire damage was concerned. con-cerned. The department responded to approximately 62 fires, the report re-port showed with 21 of the blazes being on grass and weeds. A unique part of the report showed that four of the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) Fire Damage Held to Minimum firemen if the proper procedure proced-ure were followed in reporting a fire, city officials state. Often Of-ten no address is given in reporting re-porting a fire and the kind of fire is seldom reported. In some instances neighbors have reported fires, especially grass fires set purposely and in one case an old building being be-ing burned down by the owner who had the blaze under control. con-trol. In one instance aLso after the alarm had been sounded and the fireman, inquired for the location, a tiny little voice asked if it would be okey if he went rabbit hunting with his friend. (Continued from Page One) 21 grass fires occured in February. Feb-ruary. Damage from fires during the year ranged from $5 on a garbage ' can to $5000 on chicken coops, the latter belonging be-longing to Earl Sumsion, 360 South Second West. There was $400 damage reported to a home in Brookside; slight damage dam-age to a washing machine, a car, the roof of a home; to an electric pole, a back porch, ' rabbit pens and several other I minor blazes. The city fire department made runs to several county fires in which those of Maple-ton Maple-ton are included. There were also three alarms answered for the resusitator. False Alarms Considerable expense could be saved the city and property owners as well as time for the Costly Jtange Fire Included in the list of fires outside the city limits was that of the mountain ranges east of Springville. It was possibly one of the largest single blazes blaz-es seen here in a long time, but the property damage could hardly be estimated. However, the damage done to the watershed water-shed was great and it cost in the neighborhood of $1600 to reseed the area. Officers Elected or re-appointed to conduct the affairs of the firemen organization the current cur-rent year are: Taylor Burt, chief; Carl Curtis, Alma Fullmer, Full-mer, assistants; Warner Allan and Grant Whitehead, chairmen chair-men of the group; Bill Ruff in charge of amusements; Maurice Bird, auditor; Reed Averett, publicity; Reed Rigtrup, education; educa-tion; Edwin Johnson, attendance; attend-ance; Loyd Bird, welfare; Art Child, sports. Each Wednesday for an eight-week period, the Firemen are participating in two-hour training course at the -Central Utah Vocational School. |