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Show Add to Fire Defensei About 20,000 miles of commurJa, tlon lines, truck trails, and perB nent fire defenses were built In T national forests by the Civilian Co servation corps in the last year addition, more than 10,000 miles W been completed by men emplojJ with P. W. A. funds. Workers! these and other jobs also helped), check outbreaks of fire. ' Along with excessive drouth, m brought an unusual number of'"W thunderstorms in the western stata starting hundreds of lightning jj, in the forests. Following the storm drying winds whipped the glofc snags into flaming torches why spread the flames far and wide, i total of 9,338 fires broke out In n, national forests up to September this year, compared with 7,335 ( the same period In 1931, and ant, erage of 5,907 for the past tht years. Fifty per cent of this eet-son's eet-son's fires were man-caused. |