Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 12 | Forest Fires out of Hand

FOREST FIRES OUT OF HAND Flaines Raging on Three Mile Front Ten Miles Long SPOKANE. Wash . July 15-. New forest fires, bu-nlug without restraint1 w re reported throughout the state today A fire which lias been burning, for nearly two weeks in the Aladdin I district Is again beyond control and, sweeping the Wooded area 75 miles' north of Spokane. A fire In tho Deep Creek section Stevens county, has burned over two! section. of virgin and cut-over timber tim-ber and is now burning on a three-mile three-mile frunt 10 miles long. sHDFT IS WINDS. From Rclllnghaiii a report says that a shift In the winds Mtved What-1 comb falls park Friday night, but headed the one mile sweep of flarnea toward SII vorbcaeh I'roperty owners in Iba beach r-.Htet have k'ft thell regulur plaef:a of employmnt to fight tho flro. Hire hlirnlnv nn f ..-I o..n i . .. damaged 15 acre of timber In the state park, while reports received by the ctatu forester Indicates that difficulty dif-ficulty Is being experienced In checking check-ing forest fires in al sections of western wes-tern Washington, where many old flreb aro biasing anew. TOWN IB MEN VCED. HOOD RIVER. Ore,, July 16. Tile Columbia river highway town of Wyeth was menaced Friday night by a fire throe miles square, tho most threatening of a .-frl- r.f new Mazes which broke out Friday. Tho Moslr Creek section upon which is located a beavj stand "i" timber tim-ber was reported arirr- Prid.iy nifrnt Thirty men are flRhllni? th- fire approaching K"yeth nn.i thfl t,.wn will be saved If a hiKh wind does not do vclop.