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Show Cooperate to Reduce Fire Hazard 4 Nearby foothills arc dry, with the better-than-avcrage crop of "cheat" grass ripe and ready to threaten the forests with fire, according accord-ing to Lewis Rawlinson, Utah County Firewarden. Already fire departments de-partments have been called out several times to control grass fires. The burning season seems to be three weeks to a month ahead of last year. This places a big responsibility on every citizen to see that no major fire blackens our fircsts this year. Utah's Chief Forester Firewarden, J. Whitney Floyd, has proclaimed pro-claimed a closed season, making all unpermitted fires on lands not within the boundries of incorporated cities illegal. During the- closed season as designated by the Chief Forester, the law requires anyone desiring to set on fire any forest, range, grass or brush lands to have a written permit issued by a county or district firewarden. The law reads: "During the closed season it shall be unlawful to set on fire or cause to be set on fire any inflammable material on any forest land, brush land, grass or range land, grain stubble, or hay land, or to set any fire for the purpose, of clearing either his own or the property pro-perty of another without first securing written or printed permit from the chief firewarden or one of his deputies (County Firewarden) Firewar-den) and complying fully with the terms and conditions thereof ..." It is the Firewarden's responsibility to assure himself that adequate safeguards arc provided to protect life and property. Securing a permit per-mit does not relieve the burner of liability for a fire he may set, but it does alert all protection agencies of the presence of a fire, thus saving many dollars in needless "smoke chasing." Mr. Rawlinson listed four items to be remembered throughout the fire season: (1) Check with him to see if the type of fire you expect to light requires a permit, (2) Request a permit to burn before lighting the fire, (3) Be extremely careful with fire at all times, and (4) Report wildland fires to the Sheriff's Office. Mr. Rawlinson can be contacted by calling the Sheriff's Office, FR3-4690 or his home FR3-1161. Lets all cooperate in preventing wildland fire losses so that our watersheds will be able to produce maximum quantities of "water. |