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Show FIRE FIGHTERS DISCUSS WORK OGDEN Backfiring and Its uses In fighting fire burning over Urge area formed the basis for discussion Wednesday by several score of forest service officials gathered In Ogden from over the nation for the annual forest service serv-ice fire control conference. The group was Interested also In mechanized method of fir control a applied to class I fire, fire which burn area of more than 300 acres, with the discussions being be-ing directed by Boy Headley of Washington, D. C, chief of the division of fir control. Through the use of the mechanised mechan-ised forma of fir control. It was shown, new method of coordination coordina-tion of men and equipment must be worked out to supplant the older method In us when men on the tire lines had little or no mechanized assistance In combating combat-ing the flames. Us of airplane also was discussed. dis-cussed. Including methods of dropping drop-ping equipment, materials, water, and even hot food, to supply camps on the fire line and at temporary supply bases. Forces of the lntermountaln re-tienai re-tienai ( fleee-ef the national forest . service at Ogden were planning their sixth annual dancing party at the Ben Lomond hotel In honor of the establishment of the regional re-gional office In Ogden, at which the visiting foresters will be guest Saturday night. |