Show fire fighters are selected in morgan area county coordinators to carry out the 1946 utah cooperative fire fighters program for the coming summer were made last week by J whitney floyd of logan state coordinator ray kerr supervisor and sheriff bernard dahlquist have been made morgan county coordinator and assistant respectively the annual area of grazing watershed ter shed and timber lands burned in utah has been greatly i educed deduced each year since 1912 according to mr floyd much credit for this gaes to an awakened public interest in fire prevention under the sponsorship of the state council of defense during the war years private county state and federal agencies who manage utah lands pooled their knowledge and fire fighting equipment to combat fires wherever they occurred the people of utah have shown their appreciation of cooperative fire prevention and control work by going out wholeheartedly to reduce damage by fire to our natural resources private companies and county and state departments who could help hell the program as they fulfilled their regular responsibilities gave great assistance to fire prevention and fire control work we should keep such a successful program going in our state said mr air floyd land ownership pattern pat tern is an intermingling of private city county and federal lands all of which are valuable to us as private citizens A successful fire prevention and fire control program can only be carried on through the excellent cooperation of our citizens and our public departments part ments |