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Show Fire Department Asks Cooperation Of All Citizens Due to the over-zealous way in which citizens respond whenever the fire siren is sounded In Cedar City, the volunteer fire department has found Itself considerably handicapped handi-capped during the past few months in performing in an efficient manner. man-ner. While help Is often needed and always appreciated, too many people peo-ple in too many cars often do more damage than good. While the statutes of Cedar City give the fire engine the right-of-way over all traffic, local motorists Jam the streets whenever an alarm is given, leaving the fire department depart-ment to work its way to the fire as best it can. By the time the five engine has bucked the heavy traffic traf-fic leading to the scene of the blaze, it is totally surrounded by parked automobiles and well-meaning citizens who rash madly around, getting underfoot and in dangerous places and often delaying the official of-ficial fire fighters. Often during the past months it has been impossible im-possible to get the fire engine close enough to connect with the hydrants because some speedy motorists have already parked there and then gone off and left their cars. Up to the present time, Ced.ir City has been fortunate in not having hav-ing any serious fire. The alarms turned in this summer have been mostly for brush and grass blazes in addition to the two haystacks which were saved before much damage was done. However, the fire hazard is always with as, and no one can say how or when a conflagration of tremendous proportions pro-portions will break out. The least the citizens can do is to assist the members of the fire department In making every effort not to Interfere Inter-fere with the performance of their duty. M. F. Grames, chief of the local department, points out that by rushing to the fires citizens are not only often getting In the way and hindering the progress of the 1 department, but that they are also placing themselves in danger. Tills Is especially true of the children who are allowed to dart among the moving cars, some of whom will perhaps per-haps get knocked down and probably prob-ably seriously Injured. The cooperation of all the townspeople towns-people is earnestly solicited by members mem-bers of the department and city officials who say that unless the citizens themselves do something about the situation, the police de-1 partment will have to be called m to maintain order. |