Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-08-26 | Page 17 | Fight Fires Raging in Idaho

v r IGHT GIn FIRES f RAGING IN IDAHO y r Mage tage of Labor Hampers t orts arts of Intermountain h Bt t tI I Forest orest District ay y Special News Service r. Aug 25 AIl All All forest rangers n be spared from their I southern Idaho have ave In Utah and north as the result result of oC ofa ofin a Irell Iles in Idaho and Wyoming a to destroy as much much's s 3 those lose of oC 1910 1110 and 1914 information given out toi to- to s 8 he oft i local o 1 headquarters of or the district Dived District Forester seer received telegraph telegraph- n pp having rec vi 1 ts is that more titan Utan forty fires I Ing Ing on five forests which threatens the g greatest burnt damage at this time lime e Is burrt- burrt mile five-mile front on theto the iver a 11 Ive national l forest fors according to L. L One hundred I supervisor tobe used as fire fighters are areto rushed rU hed to the scene n from ti ash The TIle forest supervisor P at Wyo V o reports that he has hasa cd eda a special force of fifty flety men menh ht h a serious fire now raging on Wyoming national forest I In n north north- V V Wyoming j to these there are eight eight- A Tires jires' jires on oa the Boise national forest post poet Of Ot these are under control r Yon won the Payette and fifteen nr on n evier all alt of these forests being i U aim in Idaho District Forester p says says the supervisors are work work- lit t disadvantage this season sell eel of their Inability to obtain halo the flames and It is Iii lithe l e tires may spread before they e checked cau causing loss off of oC forest thou thou- of dollars and miles mUes of forest