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Show COORDINATORS TO ASSIST FIRE FIGHTERS NAMED County coordinators to carry out the 1946 Utah Cooperative Fire Fighters program for the coming summer were made last week by J. Whitney Floyd of Logan, Lo-gan, State Coordinator. A. L. Taylor, assistant forest supervisor, and Sheriff Theron S. Hall, have been made Utah county coun-ty coordinator and assistant, respectively. re-spectively. The annual arT. of grazing, watershed, wa-tershed, and timber lands burned in Utah has been greatly --educed each year since 1942, according to Mr. Floyd. Much credit for this goes to an awakened public interest inter-est in fire prevention. Under the sponsorship of the State Council of Defense, during the war years, private county, state, and federal agencies who manage Utah lands, pooled their knowledge and fire-fighting fire-fighting equipment to combat fires wherever they occurred. The people of Utah have shown their apprecation of cooperative fire prevention and control work by going out wholeheartedly to reduce re-duce damage by fire to our natural nat-ural resources. Private companies and county and state departments who could help the program as they fulfilled their regular responsibilities respon-sibilities gave great assistance to fire prevention and fire control work. We should keep such a successful success-ful program going in our state, said Mr. Floyd. Utah's land ownership own-ership pattern is an intermingling of private, city, county, and federal fed-eral landsf all of which are valuable valua-ble to us as private citizens. A successful fire prevention and fire control program can only be carried car-ried on through the excellent cooperation co-operation of our citizens and our public departments. |