Show FIRES RAGE RA CE S IN GO COAST AST WILDS SAN FRANCISCO July 18 Iff AMore v Pore P- P More ore J. J than l OO grass gras and timber i er fires w were r b burning hv in 10 northern California national forests Friday with new fires being started by lightning storms faster than weary firefighters could beat them out Valuable timber stands were threatened but for the most part the fires were confined to brush grass and scrub trees A huge blaze in the Modoc naI national national na na- na- na I Honal forest burned more than acres before being checked A A. number of fighters then were released to battle the fl flames mes in other forests Another destructive fire was raging raging raging rag rag- ing uncontrolled on Big Valley mountain In the Shasta national forest One death has been attributed to the fires which began with electric storms Sunday year old Doris Doris Doris Do Do- ris Smith was killed by a a. falling tree near Montague Siskiyou county |