Show I y r W 1 r Ten top news stories stori in 77 The top ten news stories having the greatest impact and creating the most interest in the Vernal area during 1977 have been chosen and summarized by the Vernal Express staff as follows L x 3 f F DUMPING IG ITS lOAD OF a fir fire retardant on a blaring ridge line above Cart Creek Creak Is It on an air tanker based In Salt Sail Lake bk Cay Six Sio air tankers from Irom the th Salt Sall lake Lak area we were called upon to dump the chemical which results result In coaling coating the vegetation with a substance prohibiting It II to tot t c w r r I JENSEN UNIT of the Central Utah Project will provide water for Ashley Valley Volley and the area extending east of the valley volley to the Green River Dam and Reservoir pictured at left is the units unit's major feature Th The reservoir will have a receive oxygen The blare blase In th Ih the t Spruce Creek and Carl Cart Creek drainage areas area claimed three lives scorched 1500 acres acre of ol drought dry land and cost nearly a quarter of a million dollars dollar la to extinguish Cart Creek fire takes three lives The forest fire In the Spruce Creek and Cart Creek drainage area southwest of Dutch John was placed on the contained list late Monday afternoon after burning out of control since early Saturday morning The lightning sparked lightning sparked inferno claimed three lives and charred 1480 acres before fire firefighters firefighters firefighters fighters some from as far faraway faraway faraway away as Washington and Oregon completed a six and one-half one mile fire firebreak break around the blaze FUNERAL services for David Noel 36 Dutch John director of a Youth Conservation Conservation Conservation Con Con- Corps camp at Flaming Gorge National Recreational Area Gene Campbell 57 Manila a forestry technician and Dwight Hodgkinson 23 Vernal r 1 rYe ok A. A g Ab SAC Crook Pump Lake eo G total capacity of i feet acre-feet and will store early spring run-off run and surplus flows of Big Brush Creek for subsequent municipal and industrial use and for irrigation a summer employee for the Forest Service were held Tuesday and Wednesday Dick Heninger National Forest spokesman states that an investigation is currently underway and until the results of that investigation are released the exact details of what really happened and the cause of death will not be officially of of- known Their deaths occurred Saturday as the fire was building in intensity It was speculated they and other members of a man 25 crew became trapped by ten to teen-foot teen high flames Several crew members with the doomed three were able to race through burning sagebrush to a previously burned area before the flames converged on them The fire was in the Flaming Gorge Recreation Area of the Ashley National Forest about four four miles southwest of Dutch John near Flaming Gorge Reservoir and about 40 miles north of Vernal |