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Show Parowan's fire loss hits $83,000 in six month period Fire losses in Parowan during dur-ing the past six mnnths totaled to-taled $83,000, a record loss, states Albert Orton chief of the Parowan volunteer fire de. partment last week. And in reporting the loss, he states the we are now in the midst or the period of great fire danger. With the dry, hot weather we are having, weed and grass patches in vacant lots and on streets, have turned into real fire hazards, and could result In disastrous fire itf many places in our corn co-rn unity. He therefore urges all residents of the city to exercise ex-ercise caution in burning, Don't set fires to burn rubbish rub-bish at any time and especially espec-ially on windy days, and watch fires in waste barrels and incinerators, and don't let them get away. Don't discard dis-card matches and cigarettes into dry grass or weeds. To make this doubly danger ous is the fact that again this summer, we have a serious ser-ious shortage of water in the city system, even though the small auxiliary well is in use at this time, and the shortage will continue until the new well can be put into use. This can't happen for several weeks he states, as does the city officials. Orton states that the fire losses resulted from the ones that burned the Iron County Courthouse, the feed department depart-ment at the Southern Utah I Daily Co. and the one at the , former Day Farms in the valley, val-ley, and the Larry Nelson home in town. |