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Show New Skills Are Learned By Delta Fire Dept. Special schools, training, and conventions are keeping the Delta Voluntary Fire Department on their toes the past while as the Delta area has gone through a safe period per-iod of no fires. Fire 'fighting techniques for incendiary in-cendiary bombs and similar problems pro-blems of civilian defense were learned by four firemen in a recent re-cent three-day school in Salt Lake City. Seth Jackson, Reed Wood, Cleo Whicker and Dick Wind will be passing on their knowledge to the 25 other members of the department de-partment in their regular monthly meetings. i The whole department completed complet-ed training in control of forest and grass fires in a course taught by W. E. Tangren, state forest fire warden, this summer. Many evenings even-ings were spent in starting and stopping fires in the hills north of Delta to gain experience. The teachings were clinched by showing show-ing and discussing picture slides of the techniques involved in later lat-er sessions at the fire station. Six members and their wives J will leave next week to' be dele-! dele-! gates to the Firemen and Auxili-l Auxili-l ary convention to be held in Log-I Log-I an. Representing Delta will be Fire , Chief, and Mrs. Dick Wind, Assist-j Assist-j a Fire Chief and Mrs. Reed Wood Mr. and Mrs. Seth Jackson, Mr. and 1 Mrs. Newell Iverson, Mr. and Mrs. Fera Little, and Mr. and Mrs. Lon Wood. |