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Show SUMMER BRINGS FIRE HAZARD During the spring oF the year, if the weather is clear and warm, we look into the great blue hall of the sky and predict a summer season of high fire hazard. That hind of spring weather is conducive to early vegetative growth, and early plant maturity. It is after the vegetation becomes mature ma-ture and dry that it will burn rapidly and fiercely. If it matures ma-tures early we can expect a long fire season. Or, during the spring, instead of gazing into a great blue ball, we may have been peering into a grey sky drizzling drizz-ling moisture down onto our Utah soil. In fact it may have been a cool, wet, late spring. This means to the people thinking of fire that the vegetation will grow thick and rank when the weather does warm up. Surely sooner or later, it must mature and become dry, making it a fire hazard. The fire season may not be as long as usual, but it has the possibility possi-bility of being very severe. No matter what type of spring weather we have, we know that any approaching summer season can bring with it great danger of severe fires. For this reason the season from June 1 to October 31 has been declared a closed season sea-son to unpermitted fires by the state board of forestry and fire control. So, if you must burn, you may secure a permit to do so from the sheriff or county fire chief, who will issue the permit after he is satisfied that the fire can be limited to the proposed area, and when he feels that weather conditions condi-tions make safe burning possible. |