Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-07 | Page 5 | Flames Sweep Forest Areas

FLAMES SWEEP FOREST AREAS SACRAMENTO Cal Sept 7 UPA UP UPA A A series of forest fires swept Various various various va va- rious sections of northern California today d destroying thousands of acres of valuable timber and defying the efforts of hundreds of fire fighters to o bring them under control More than men were fighting flames in four counties of the M Mendocino Mendocino Mendo- Mendo cino national forest Nine fires all allbut allbut but one of them believed of Incendiary incendiary incendiary I diary origin were reported They have swept more than acres II of timberland An alleged incendiary fire ire in the the Pacific coast El Dorado national forest forest forest for for- est was reported to have blackened acres since yesterday and arid was sweeping hundreds of acres of valuable valuable valuable val val- sugar pine in El Dorado county today J J. J Thomas 50 an Itinerant was held in the El Dorado county jail on suspicion of having started the blaze Flames FJames in Plumas county destroyed the Gus Knoll dairy ranch as they swept up the north slope of Mt Hugh Federal and state forest rangers rangel's asked for additional aid as they marshaled marshaled marshaled mar mar- all available men in the thedis dis district to combat the Ute spreading flames lames