Show doctori fire engi engine pe for uintah county W within athin the next days uintah county is scheduled to get a new now or gallon capacity capaci tyri firo re engine its versatile design makes it efficient for fighting both rural and city fires it can pump while in motion for grass fires and can pump from irrigation ditches and canals a real asset to rural sparsely populated communities where fire hydrants are not plentiful william B hayes an engineer with the board of fire underwriters and a recent visitor in vernal is of the opinion that the values and population of uintah county will not justify the establishment of a county fire fira department as a separate organization he said rather that it would be wiser to combine the vernal city force and equipment with the county to form one highly efficient fire dopart department part ment for both city and county the fire underwriters having acquired important data through intensive research and observation are to give valuable recommendations on such an issue mr hayes said that in small all communities in utah where county fires are hard to handle the board has found it more feasible to house the equipment of city and county fire departments together and man it with the same crew he e establishment of one excellent department would bo be a more economical undertaking and would in iii the tho caso case of uintah county prove more successful than two mediocre departments one alarm would serve to summon the firemen the 11 crew will have been trained to work together in case me of either a city or county fire it would be more economical to train one crew A combined department would have twice as much potency in that it could handle two county fires two city fires or a city and county fire simultaneous I 1 y examples where a combined county city fire department part ment has been highly favorable are found in cedar city and parowan carowan Pa rowan |