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Show BREEZY TIMES FIRE DEPARTM ENT NOTES In a normal year, we have at least one snowfall heavy enough the next best thing is clothing made of natural fibers, namely cotton or wool. They will burn but they don't melt and stick to you compounding the severity of to lay down the cheat grass and weeds from the previous spring a burn. Of course, the best growth. This year I've noticed a no fires, but we haven't figured a lot of dead material still standing. That means that we will have a nature. double supply of material to burn once the new growth dies off in protection we can have is to have way to deal effectively with If you haven't had a reduction early summer: Please be careful in your home insurance rates since Feb. 1st, you should contact with your cigarettes, matches, torches and so on. Anytime you your agent and ask him about it. The reduction is the result of our do outside, open burning, soak reclassification to a class 9 district. We desperately need more the remaining embers and the area around them with water. The law is clear that if you don't have water, you don't burn. When you choose to help us extinguish a grass or brush fire, there are several things to remember. Most important is that you don't get downwind from the blaze, without adequate pretection, and become part of the fuel or become a victim of smoke inhalation. Dropping to your knees will help with the latter when an occasoinal swirl of wind moves the smoke toward you. Lots of drinking water is the next most important thing. If the body loses too much fluid without replacement, the natural temperature control system shuts down and the results of that can be very serious. The clothing you wear is important. You probably won't have fire retardant clothing, but - MAY 15, 1996 - 3 AS THE WORLD TURNS New Moon...Fri...May 17th Rises....7: 13 am Sets 9:53pm Full Moon...SaL..June 1st Rises...9:23pm....Sets..6:44am Constellations...As evenings long twlight fades, Leo is approaching the west horizon. Vega, Denab, and Altair are coming up in the east making the Summer Triangle. Planet Slghtings...Pluto appears at its best, very dim on the 22nd of May. Jupiter rises big and brilliant at evening’s end Venus is at inferior conjunction, in which the planet is between the Sun and the volunteers who know how to use Earth.nottobeseenagainlmtil our equipment. It doesn't matter whether you are in Salt Lake City, afterthe lOthofJuneatdawn. Moab, or Castle Valley. When a home catches fire, the same number of trained people are required to extinguish the blaze. When we get to a fire we look around to see who is available. The number of trained people on the scene dictates the type of action we can take. It can be anywhere from a holding action to an interior attack. The latter is the most effective approach, but it Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood; And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers; And flowers themselves, that sway through the sunny hours; Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon. —Rupert Brooke Excerpted from Old Farmer’s Almanac —Jermifer Redding can't be done by people who haven't had the proper training. Training removes the element of danger from the procedure. It would help a lot of we could find a dozen, or more, people who are interested in providing a purely volunteer service to their friends and neighbors. Five or six hours a we spend at fires, really isn't much to ask of a citizen of the District Give it some serious thought. Floyd Stoughton, Fire Chief month in training, plus the time CANYON NURSERY STARK BROTHERS BARE ROOT FRUIT TREES—SHADE TREES Have Arrived HUGE SELECTION—Reserve yours Now FREE CASTLE VALLEY DELIVERY 275 WILLIAMS WAY 259-8274 |