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Show FIRE FIGHTING PICTURES MADE According to J. Whitney Floyd, chief forester-fire warden for the state board of forestry and fire control, the state fire control agencies agen-cies of Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, and the U. S. grazing service and the U. S. forest service, are producing pro-ducing Hheir second fire fighting training film. The new film will demonstrate how to plan the control con-trol of large brush and grass fires and will demonstrate the use of heavy equipment road patrols, caterpillar tractors, Wheatland the horse plow units, and water tanker tank-er units in large fire suppression. suppres-sion. The thirty-minute film, entitled "Grass and Brush Fire Fighting Large Fires," will be in sound and technicolor. The problem is being filmed on a model representing represent-ing 1500 acres of foothill lands typical of Utah, Nevada, and southern Idaho. Filming , of the model is now being done in Og-den Og-den by H. E. Hedges and Paul Beiler, of the forest service, and Don M. Drummond of the Utah board of forestry and fire con-tral. con-tral. Field shots of heavy equipment equip-ment working on actual fires will be taken this July in southern Idaho by representatives of the fire- control agencies of the three states and the forest and grazing srvices. The picture is expected to be ready for training use before be-fore next spring, Mr. Floyd said. A fire training film demonstrating demonstrat-ing the use of hand tools in the control of small brush and grass fires was completed two years ago by this same group, said Mr. Floyd, and it has been widely used for fire training purposes throughout the entire country. |