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Show California Counties Plan Protection SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29 Twenty-four California counties have adopted adopt-ed a plan for county fire protection organization suggested by the University Univer-sity of California, according to an announcement an-nouncement from the university. In these counties -112 rural firo fighUng companies, made up of 6500 individuals, are now fully organized. Part of the equipment purchased at county expense Includes 532 automo-bllo automo-bllo trailers, fire extinguishers, and firo fighting tools: The activity of the county organizations, the university officials state, has been a remarkable lowering of firo losses. "The protection of food, forage and forests from fire, urged by the farm advisers of California as a war time necessity, according to a statement of Ralph P. Mcrritt, United States food administrator for California, "has materially ma-terially helped in making it possible to ship such enormous quantities of supplies from this state to our armies and our allies." |