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Show Storm Starts Fires In North, East Sectors A severe electric storm which traveled over the foothill area to the east and northeast of Faro-wan Faro-wan Valley at Saturday afternoon, after-noon, set numerous fires in the hills east of Buckhorn Flat, two of which spread rapidly and were the cause of a general fire alarm in this area. One big fire which spread out in the valley bet wen Red Canyon and East Cottonwood, burned over aproxlmately 200 acres of grazing land and threatened to get into the thick pinions of the higher hills for a time. A second fire east of the R. L. Fenton ranch on Buckhorn flat, burned over a much smaller area, but had to be brought under control to keep from spreading into dangerous proportions. Other fires were started along the hills to Mule Point and on the Black Mountain In the north end of the valley. None of these spread but just burned the tree which had been hit. Fire fighting crews numbering as high as 25 men, led by the district forester from Cedar City, S. M. Clark of the fish and game department, Arch Benson of the county sheriffs department, and local volunteer fire department chief Bryce Adams, were fighting fight-ing the large fire until almost midnight Saturday. At that time it was thought the fire was well under control, but it broke out again when the wind began to blow Sunday. Another An-other crew was called out just after noon on Sunday and fought the fire until almost 10 p. m. before be-fore it was put out. Fire fighters on Saturda afternoon af-ternoon stated that ligh'ning hit close to them on several occasions oc-casions and had the air charged with electricity, although little if any moisture fell during the storm. |