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Show I Dixie Forest fire conditions dangerous I Jones, Paul Fullmer, Maynard IV I o, Randy Williams, Tom Dot.son, Juan Lope, James Sloan, and Ronald Bolander from Cedar City. Fire conditions are critical on the Dixie National Forest, reports E. Allen Croer, branch chief in charge of fire control. He states that with the tremendous tre-mendous number of people using the National Forest, the possibility of fire Is extremely high. Mr. Crozer counsels everyone to please be careful and make sure his eampfire is dead-out. Over the past week end, fire crews from the Dixie were kept busy suppressing eight lightning-caused forest fires. Two of the fires were on the Pine Valley Mountains, one was just east of Enterprise, one on Haycock Mountain on the head of the Mammoth, one near Harris Flat on Cedar Mountain, two were near Swains Creek, and the last fire was near the Upper Valley Val-ley Guard Station west of Es- calante. All were approximately approximat-ely one-tenth acre in size. As of last Sunday evening, the Dixie had a total of 40 Forest For-est fires. This compares with 16 at this time last year, and a yearly total for 1969 of 35 fires. Of the 40 fires on the Dixie, six have been caused by man, the balance by lightning. Of the six, three have law enforcement en-forcement cases pending in the courts, Crozer said. Sunday evening, 14 men from the Dixie National Forest For-est were sent to eastern Oregon Ore-gon to help with fire control efforts in Region 6 of the Forest For-est Service. These men were Jim Rathbun and Lyle Wilkinson Wilkin-son from Panguitch, Philip Bayles from Escalante, Jack Adams from Teasdale, and Jim Fierst, Pete Broast, Leslie |