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Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-15 | Page 15 | District Lends Increased Aid

Type issue
Date 1926-08-15
Paper Ogden Standard-Examiner
Language eng
City Ogden
County Weber
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Article Title District Lends Increased Aid
Type article
Date 1926-08-15
Paper Ogden Standard-Examiner
Language eng
City Ogden
County Weber
Page 15
OCR Text I DISTRICT LENDS INCREASED AID Forest Service Men Being Sent S nt to Northern Fire Region Twenty-three Twenty representatives es 01 the forest service sericO In District 4 sr ar lighting fighting Montana northern Idali Idah and northwestern forest forst fIres tirca Vis Forester n It t IL H aai Saturday Four additional men men who if Id l Friday Mr dge said wh servo a as fire leaders Two of oC the tho 23 are assistant foresters C N Woods 1 In char of operations I Is Hi t Spokane an anC C 11 E D dorso Is at MIssoula Eight of tho 23 are named as os outstandIng Ing leaders In the fire fIghtIng terrItory while the tho rest are 4 01 di clare dared to be bo right In tho midst of the ho fighting lighting On August 10 JO the tho ZIre Ire In District District 4 4 which Includes Utah southern and central Idaho west wesl ern em Wyoming eastern Nevada and northern Arizona was still ser ser- ser serious ious bus with the hazard running sigh but no perlous fires tires were declared a II summary of the year a tires firOs prepared by the district 0 of- of of office fice here hate Up p to that date data fires tires were reported In the district Of 0 theSe thc thc- io were rero less lees than one fourth 01 of oan an acre 68 were ere less t than ha n 10 acres and 25 were more than 10 acres in size The fires tires burn burli burned Id I'd over 2040 acres Inside the for for- for and 1318 acres acres outside but ad- ad adJacent ad adjacent jacent to the tho forests One Ono hundred tour thirty oC or the were fires attributed to toor or caused by men Of the there were 21 1 convictions or 16 per celt cent Most of o the fire tire loss o In southern and central Idaho where the hazard Is 11 high The rho forest tiro firo hazard hazard on on Utah forests forst is slight
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