Show UCNTAH UINTAH FIRES SHOV STROW INCREASE FIRE prevention WEEK NEARSI NEARS with nearly double the number of tires fires this year in ulntah uintah county as compared with lasij lastj year and also an increase in fires in the city national fire prevention week from october 713 7 13 looms with greater local significance said coke jeffries Fire firechlef firechief chief wednesday for the whole of 1950 1050 there were only 14 fires in uintah county compared with 25 up to the present this year city fires to talled 21 for last lut year with 24 to date in 1951 many of this years fires were caused during the long period of hot dry weather while house holders were trying to burn bum grass gran mr deffries jeffrtcs yeffries explained at that time the fire department had as many as three calls a day he said mid I 1 1 the firechief firecmef Fire chief emphasized that nearly 28 percent of fires throughout the united states were caused by the car careless eleis disposal of cigaret butts and i matches faulty chimneys stoves aad and furnaces accounted for another 20 percent with the issue of flammable fluids listed third with 16 10 percent |