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Show I PATROL IS POUND SUCCESS l IN CALIFORNIA i 1 ! Giant Machine Assigned to Make Daily Circle Covering 400 ' Miles Daily. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. July 5 So SUOCSSSful has the patrol by airplane 'of the national reserves in southern 'California proven to the government (that the fianl machine. operating from Ifareil Field, near Riverside, has been asslgjnsd the task of making a I daily circle tour coverlnK approximately approxi-mately 400 miles I'nder the new assignment as-signment the air scout 7-one has been extended gre:itl both to the nmlli and to the south of the operating base . Flying as far south as San Diego and reaching to the north as far as Santa Mafla, 'he scout patrol keeps an ever watchful eye on the forests In the government domain My mentis of trlreUMs equipment any blase on the hillside Is located by its tell-tale smoke, reported to the nearest station I. means of wlreles-i telegraph and US career promptly ended by ranfcrs a ho rush to the location In automobiles To make the service more effective Is private landing rtage has been constructed con-structed al Santa Barbara for the use of the patrol plane and u complete radio ra-dio station I'.'ih been installed there. On its northbound trip the airplane covers the west end of the AjlgalSS and all of the Santa Barbara national reserve On Its southward flight from March Field to San Diego the' east end of the Angeles range and all of Cleveland Past come under the gaze of the trained observers. Since the adoption of the "bird's eye" method of detecting and reporting report-ing forent fires none than a half dozen small but menacing fires have been detected, their location flashed to the radio stations and I heir destructive paths effectively blocked. |