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Show Careless Campers Start Forest Fires Demon fire has already been at work in the forests of Sanpete and Sevier counties, and mainly, it is claimed, the fires have been the result re-sult of carelessness. This year, of all years, due to the extreme dry conditions condi-tions through the forests as well as the valleys, the hazard is great. Two fires in the Manti forest within the past ten days have wrought great damage. One of the fires of last week broke out in the foothills east of Spring City, and only the first of this week about 1000 acres of grazing graz-ing lands in the mountains east of Mt. Pleasant were burned. A fire, discovered on the Fishlake National forest Friday, and which continued to sweep through the forests for-ests until Saturday afternoon, mowed mow-ed down about 300 acres of forest trees and badly damaged the watersheds. water-sheds. This fire was noticed about 10 o'clock Friday morning in the Glen-wood Glen-wood district, and immediately firefighters fire-fighters from Glenwood and Anna-bella Anna-bella rushed to the scene. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the fact that a heavy wind was blowing, the workers succeeded in checking the fierce blaze somewhat. some-what. Renewed energy was put forth Saturday and by evening the fire was practically under control. But the damage had been done. Who was responsible for starting the fires has not been definitely determined, de-termined, but officers are making investigations in-vestigations in the hopes of locating the culprits, and if they are caught they should be punished. Thoughtfulness should be foremost in the minds of campers, or those who go out for a day's outing. Every vistage of a fire, if one should be lighted, should be smothered sufficiently suffi-ciently to prevent wind from reviving the flames. Go to a little extra trouble trou-ble in this and help guard our watersheds water-sheds so that demon fire will not destroy de-stroy them. They can be protected and preserved if all mountain visitors visit-ors will be loyal and play "Safety First" by safeguarding our mountain moun-tain forests and playgrounds. |