Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-06 | Page 2 | Three Big Fires Ravage Forests

THREE OlD BIG FIRES RAVAGE RA Y AGE FORESTS SHERIDAN Wyo July 6 UP p- p Three forest fires one of ot which may have have- been started by an airplane crash raged In northern Wyoming and end southern Montana today In an isolated area of ot the Big BigHorn BigHorn Horn national forest 75 miles northwest northwest northwest north north- west of here fire Ire fighters sought to stamp out a fire tire which forestry officials said might possibly have been started by an airplane accident acci acci- dent The other two fires tires burned in the Custer national forest southwest of ot Billings Mont and near the Shoshone Shoshone Shoshone Sho Sho- shone national forest northwest of Cody Wyo Clyde CIde forest ranger Inthe in inthe the Big Dig Horn national nal forest said late last Jast night the fire lire fighters had found no trace trac of ot any plane but added the forest service ervice had been Informed by a reliable source that a flaming object which might have been a plane fell into the forest Dickson said the informant John Debarth a rancher near the tho Porcupine Porcupine Porcupine Porcu Porcu- pine ranger station had reported seeing a ball of ot fire plunge into the forest and set it ablaze Debarth Dc- Dc barth he said w was uncertain as to what it was WM but said it might have I been an airplane No missing plane piano Dickson said has bat been reported in this area Dickson said Mid the tho fire could not have been started by lightning as the area was free of ot storm conditIons conditions conditions condi condi- yesterday The blaze spread rapidly through the parched forest and late last Jast night had burned over acres A crew of ot men augmented by 75 15 C C C workers and several carl carloads car car- l loads ads of Crow Indians were at the fire tire front this morning