Show Flames Rage Over 1500 Acres Med Crouch Ranch Ranell Arvin Rust Injured Fire Piro by two small mall boys with matches charred more than 1500 acres of 01 grazing land on the Med Crouch ranch in Lost Creek Valley W Wednesday and Thursday More than 40 men with four caterpillar tractors and a number of jeeps were engaged in fighting the flames j i Smoke was still billowing up from front the scene at 3 pm p.m. Thursday but Sheriff Porter Carter said be believed there was wasa a good fire break clear around the scene and most of 01 the con cone i it in strips inside the charred section Even EYen further tragedy was added when Arvin Rust fell feU beneath a moving cat tractor and his leg badly crushed was amputated ted at an n Ogden hospital I Arvin Rust 32 suffered th the loss ot of his right leg when a caterpillar tractor over the Ute member abou about Wednesday evening at atthe atthe atthe the fire scene The tractor had bad thrown a tread and Rust nUlt was trying to regain it lie He was waa joined by Eddington Edding- Edding ton who aviated assisted u The tractor began rolling roiling backward down the Ute lull hull and both me men mep tried in vain tc put ut it into gear Finally Eddington advised Rust to abandon the machine and leaped leaped leap leap- ed oft off one one 4 side Rust leaped off other but fell beneath the tread land ami his right leg was was was' crushed crush crush- ed below the knee The injured man was taken by ambulance to Dee Deo Hospital In Og Ogden Ogden Og Og- den where the leg was amputated just above the knee kneer iI I i I The fire tire was started Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day afternoon by two small boys I II old enough to know better betler They I were walking down the Ute road one I had a book of ot m matches tche and they 1 started a series Berles ot of small harmless I I Finally they Ignited June JI I grass across the fence and abd the I damage was done I One ot of the boys both of ot whom II were 7 years old tri tried d to beat out outI the fire with his shirt but tho the I garment quickly turned to smoke I I Sheriff Porter Carter Invest Investigating gating found the lads lads' hiding ina In Ina Ina I a near near-by field Fought Till Tilt Midnight I II I Charles Woodbury established headquarters on the road and kept In touch with several loaders u In different rent sections by walkie walkie- I talkie The fight light was kept up until I midnight when it was believed the fire lire W was wae 8 fairly under control I and of ot heavy ma machinery I was dangerous in the darkness All available bIe crews resumed the I j fight at dawn The morning wind wind served to keep the blaze moving and observers noted that heavy I piles of oak brush leaves retained retained 1 I Ithe the smoldering embers Trees In inthe in inthe the Ute line of at fire lire literally exploded continued drought and heat has I made everything In the area like Uke gasoline Fire fighters from Henefer and 1 Coalville as well a af Morgan County wetted down the Med Crouch home and buildings Which have been threatened by the flames lIames three times The moving fire lire Is subject to 10 the vagaries of ot wind The Crouch family twice began removing g valuables from th the home but the fire Lire changed directions Soon after noon Thursday the tho fire lire again shifted and threatened outbuildings on n the Med hied Crouch ranch The Morgan fire lire truck r was called to the scene to wet down the buildings from a nearby nearby nearby near near- by canal Cat from Hill Sheriff Porter POrtel Carter stayed stay on the sc scene ne all aU night as did other officials Mr Mrs Mac Crouch manned manned man man- ned the Ute Sheriffs Sheriff's Jeep Patrol man man-I central central central cen cen- signal station and members of the patrol stayed on the job t many with jeeps Hill Hili Air Force Base sent a cat with blade the State Road Commission Com Com- mission sent two cats and the I county's cat was on the scene The W. W W W. Clyde Construction I Company offered assistance The State of Utah sent 20 pris- pris I j i I Point of ot the Moun Moin taint tain Armed with shovels they followed the moving blades and andI tried to prevent the flames from I Jumping the breaks The fire firo was described d as I reaching from Pine to Folley Canyon Morgan County was very hazy with smoke Thursday y morning and the smoke reached Into the tho Ogden Valley VaHey and and extended out lov over r the Great Salt Lake I |