Show y- y AU v fl FLEE 1 1 DEATH AS FIRES fORSI r. r J O Q Batt Battle e Flames Iames in jn ini ti Northwestern Timber r i Lands Lands' II fi f PORTLAND Ort Ore Aug 14 United p flame defied more Press Press ess Belching thin i firefighters on an i numerous fire lin lines a fn Oregon and end Washington f forests today zA A roaring blaze blazo wept swept down the elopes of at Dollar mountain ln In t the l Colville f forest re t In Washington near the the- Canadian n b borderS border It leaped a sour mlle gorge gorgo Tuesday and ate into a a- afine fine stand eland of ot timber near Sherman creek Three hundred bundred Canadian soldiers joined d several sever l hundred other fire firefighters fighters Lers In a a. struggle to halt the conflagration th that t already had blackened acres and destroyed ed Z several verat million feet of pine F FIVE VE FIR FIRES S RAGE I Five lye major fires s n near ar Spokane fined filled the air with such dense smoke emoke th that t airplane scouts were unable t to estimate the tho extent of ot the damage Forty Fo ty m men n h had d a a. narrow narro escape from being burned to death when hen a sudden 1 shift In the wind sent the fIr In lii the Chelan national forest racing toward a c camp mp E. E P. P Flynn Portland engineer was taken t to to a We Wenatchee atchee hospital suffering ng from burns and smoke choked lungs Jungs after he ho had rushed his m men n out of t. t camp through the only sate safe afo route Hundreds of or men have haye been thrown out ut of ot w work rk by tho the closing d down wn of ot several lumber CE camps UPS due to acute c t forest c hazard bazard rd FLAMES UNCONTROLLED In Oregon Oregon the Daley taley Roat Boat Roat fire tire Inthe in inthe the Grande Ronde Rondo district still w was s uncontrolled as It It raced raced through 1300 acres cres' of ot like jungle country Tha rh American Fork fire fIfe near Baker Ore was reported well In hand d d due o oto oto to quick work of the Blue mountain tire Iro fIrt lighting fighting squadron a a a. picked unit ports show that fires have been bee caused b by lightning lightning- In th the tinder like Uke forests of Oregon and Washington during the he last ast 10 days s. Four Blazes I In California California'S S 'S SAN SN N FRANCISCO Aug Aus 14 United d Press Press Four Four to forest lCt and brush fires ZIre In northern arid and c central nt l California today assumed critical proportions once more Three of r the tho blazes bazes have o been bu burning since Mon Monday ay and md the theto to fourth began early Tuesday Sections of the Santa Barbara Sequoia and Plumes Plumas forests were being blacke blackened ed and flames s were rushing along z a three mile front in Amador county Th The Th situation n threatened d to become be be- be become come come as as critical al 1 a as last w week ek when hen approximately fires one third of them Incendiary ry were fought b by th thousands of ot of men Estimates to state and federal headquarters be e of at fire war wardens ens hero I were that more than acres acres' had hd been burned over by tho the four now fires SIres and nd more I thore oro than men were v re d' d on 1 the fire lines Re- Re Delving major attention was the copt conflagration In the Santa Barbara forest orest Fanned by a stiff north wind 1 ba hag swept over several thousand wes acres ot of land and con can ian not b be controlled controlled con con- trolled for tor several days rangers rangers rangers' r re re- re ported Battle Fires In Montana MISSOULA Mont Aug 14 d Press F Forest executives tr from ni Colorado N New w Mexico Mexico- and Arizona rzona A on were gathering Hero liero today tO Uptake t charge of additional lighting light fight Ight- Ight ing crews and help direct the tho of offensive ot- ot against raging forest fires s sI I jn Montana J and ad northern I Idaho Idah I With new new bl baze blazes ues starting starling every everyday 1 day labor supply su running runnIng- low and andI I continued lack of ot rain officials do- do de declared that tho tIre fire hazards were vera the worst W In years and that strenuous arid and steady fighting would v uld be n necessary es t sary zary to check the flames It Ita a was fear feared ared d that ha nothing but a heavy rainfall w would stop atop some Borne of the larger fires I Numer Numerous us fires along railroad tracks h have o added to the trouble ex J I nc d by fighters ers Timber Is ex ex- dr dry and easily Ignited Fi Fires es were spreading west westor of Mis Mis- zoula and In the he Blackfoot Blacko valley to day Fresh crews of men from points other than w r sent to these fires fire to the Sal Sal- 1 mon mba n mountain district in In northern I Idaho and to the forest in northwestern Montana h heavy vy a.-vy cu curtain tah of at smoke h hung ng over western Montana t ta today a d I. I y attaching more miles milca from the co x IL |