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Show . TA&R?&&f-, FIGHT FIRES IN BEAVER AREA. Cedar City Municipal Airport was a hive of activities this past two weeks as they set up portable slurry processing proces-sing plant, shown above, to drop on fires that burned over 1000 acres on Fishlake National Forest. At one time six tankers were oh hand" at the airport air-port to transport and drop the fire fighting slurry. In addition the muni cipal airport was the arrival and departure de-parture pont for over 200 fire fighters that had been brought in from all over the west to assist in bringing four separate blazes in the area under control. con-trol. It is expected that the portable slurry unit will remain at the airport throughout the remainder of the critical criti-cal fire danger period. . |