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Show $4590 Blaze Heads Fire Department Damage List for 1954 Latest call placed at the Cedar City olunteer fire department was made Wednesday morning at approximately 8 o'clock and brougnt the total calls for the year to date, to 50, according to Frank Goddard, department attendant. at-tendant. The call Wednesday was to the Adley Wood, Jr., residence and although the fire had been extinguished ex-tinguished by the time the de- nnrlmont nrri;pH Thn n;rilnnH loss was $5.00. The call was placed after a night light in the children's bedroom had started the bedding on fire. However, the blaze was quenched by the Wood family. While reviewing the year's calls, ;0 in all compared to 41 for the year 1953, Goddard noted that tlv largest blaze in total damage in two years occurred last May 5, when the J. C. Parry home on 400 East Street was burned at an estimated loss of $1500. The next to the largest blaze in dollar damage occurred just recently, re-cently, Nov. 25 at 10:55 p. m. when electric motors and equipment equip-ment in the- amount of S&00 was destroyed at Lunts Hotel on Main Street. A $500 fire at the Stratton ! sheds on 3(35 North (500 West was third on the list this year, Goddard pointed out. Two trips have been made by the voluntcei department outside J of Iron County. Both of these were to New Harmony. Most of the calls have been in Cedar City and Cedar Valley, he stated. This year's top blaze tops the 1953 mark of $1200 estimated in the loss of a haystack in New-! castle by Glen Heaton. Barring the possibility of a ma-'jor ma-'jor fire in the county between now and the first of the o,ir, the services of the Volunteer Fire-! Fire-! men will have ben used but little this year. With a comparatively 'dry year, fires have been hold to !a near minimum and damage i has been small, due to fast action in a number of cases. |