Show Eight Watershed Wate Fires I II In Summit County The Tho Utah State Foresters 1949 re records re- re rec records cords c of fires tires on state and privately owned watershed lands show Improve improve- ment six Eighty-six fires tires burned II acres In contrast fires Covered covered I acres In 1942 1942 and fires burn burn- burned burned r 1 ed cd acres In 1948 I The 1949 decrease was made in spite of the high fire tire hazard season The In Increasing in- in inI increasing creasing care by citizens In handling I fire Is credited for much of or this Im Im- ImI I provement I Ninety per cent of the 1949 fires tires were I man-caused man and 10 percent lightning i Smokers led with 35 per cent of the man caused fires Debris and range burn burn- burning burning ing ling followed with 23 per cent State fire control is by units Sheriffs or special l fire chiefs handle the tho fires The state aided by federal funds make partial reimbursements to the counties for tor lire Ure expenditures on state and private watershed lands In 1949 Summit county had eight water water- watershed waterbed watershed shed bed fires and spent on fire control The county received re reimbursement re- re reimbursement reimbursement from the state |