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Show QUIET TIMES FIRE DEPARTMENT NOTES Some time ago we changed our meeting hours from 6pm to 9pm on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. The original hours, 7:30pm to 9pm, did not allow enough time for instruction and drills. Last summer our department was surveyed for approval of a more favorable insurance rating. We were approved for a Class 9 rating and that would, of course. be useful there. Unfortunately, smoke is a sedative and, if you are asleep, will not waken you. Remember one important thing. If you choose to use an extinguisher or hose to fight a fire, never let the fire get between you and your escape path. Floyd Stoughton, Chief - JANUARY 15, 1996 - 3 AS THE WORLD TURNS February is Groundhog Month New Moon...Jan 20th Rises....7:08 am Sets 5:48pm LOOK UP. . .Jan 23rd in mid—evening at the southern sky after the moon, Venus and Saturn have set. The sky is dominated by the bright constellations Taurus, Auriga. Gemini, Canis Minor, O U R ROA DS As this dry and mild winter Canis Major and Orion the Hunter. Sirius, brightest of all stars, can be will be effective Febl, 1996. It should continues, road work is being kept to a seen in the south at midevening, to the be picked up by your insurance carrier without action on your part. minimum. Fortunately most of the roads are in good shape. lower left of Orion. Jupiter begins to emerge from moming twilight. Full Moon...Sun...Feb 4th Rises...7: 19pm-----Sets..5:4lam You are probably aware that the The Road Committee is working kitchen is the most likely room to be subjected to a fire. About 27% of all reported residential fires start there. About twice that many start there but are extinguished by the person working in or around the kitchen. That makes on signs. John has taken an inventory, and found that we nwd 25 signs and 35 sign posts. The committee is still looking for someone to make wooden signs to match the ones currently on the kitchen door a good place to hang a John met with Floyd Stoughton to examine the cul—de-sac situation. Lanes needing cul-de-sacs are: Firecliff Descends on him and showers his bad (formerly Resevoir), Cliffview, Amber, Excerpted from Old Farmer’s Almanac --Jennifer Redding fire extinguisher. The last time I visited Wal-Mart they had some nice extinguishers. One sold for about ten dollars and would be adequate for stove top or appliance fires that had just begun to spread. A second one sold for about thirty dollars and would the roads. upper and lower Rimshadow (formerly Powell), upper Bailey, upper and lower extinguish or slow down a fairly hot fire. What ever extinguisher you buy, ments, have not as yet been whether for car or home, be sure it is marked with numbers like lA lOBC. 2A 20BC, etc. The higher the numbers, the better (as long as you can lift it). The next most likely place for a residential fire is the bedroom. followed by the living room. Smoking materials and spaceheaters are prime causes of fire in those areas. An extinguisher and eyes. —Thomas Hardy Pace, lower Miller, and lower Holyoak. The size and shape of these cul-de-sacs asneededbythefireandroaddepart— rated for A, B or C fires. It will be A sparrow enters the tree Whereon immediately A snow-lump thrice his own slight size determined. Gravel that was put down last year has tended to wasth significantly. Bemsue of this, John is hoping to experiment with a thinner layer of gravel that will mix with the subsoil. This would need to be applied when moisture is present. Roads that are next on the list for gravelling are: Homestead, Rim Rock, and Firecliff. Joan Sangree DONATIONS APPRECIATED: Thanks this month to Steve Viavant, Layne Kabonic, Valli Smouse, and Jake Burnett for your donations. All donations are used exclusively for printing costs. Donations and ad revmue make the free issues possible at the front gate. Subscriptions just cover the cost of printing and mailing. Subscriptions are encouraged. as the copies placed at the front gate quickly disappear. CASTLE VALLEY TIMES CELEBRATE WINTER WITH A LIVING TREE ALL EVERGREENS 20% OFF! CANYON NURSERY 275 WILLIAMS WAY CALL 259-8274 FREE CV DELIVERY |
