Show FIRE prevention WEEK the president in his proclamation of august 30 has designated this week beginning beg innig october 3 a as foe fire prevention week the president said this nations war program is in menaced faced by an ala alarming maing increase iri in P preventable reven table fire ire losses sure since P pearl harbor the destruction caused by fire in the united states has been comparable to the damage caused by all 11 enemy bombing over england i during t ming the first two years of the war the loss to this nation is jwj as real as it if the destruction had been wrought b by y enemy bombers over america or nit by these preventable fon fires us are be mg ing measured in thousands of work ar ers killed and it dialed di a ailed aed vast de st trio ruction tm of cri critical leal raw materials material food and other vital vita supplies for far our ormed forces a and civilian jan lation the runo ruin of war plants far fac tones ho homes es and machinery iri in many cases e s for the duration of the dr tion tc war r fires area are bron bringing g costly miti it de lays in the production and transportation por tation of airplanes ships tanks and ad guns delays that mean post bonem pon ement t of victory and the lives of many y a of our men on the fighting fronts the president called upon the na its b tion on to take vigorous measures d during fire prevention week and ahr thru out of the y year ean to conserve a our human ail me material mo resources c a luperi supervisor a me albert al b art albertson of th tb dixie forest translates the appeal to the prevention of forest and ad range fires the dixie during the thirteen year prod from 1931 to the present has had fires within the national forest boundary with of them being man caused A foe fire in 1934 in maple canyon a fisher man s neglected g campfire burned cres acres another foe fire in 1936 on the quail creek drainage amok ors ers fire caused by a hunter burned 1607 1 acres A third fire in 1937 in wet sandy a smokers smoker foe fire caused by a hunter burned acres these three firm fires burned burneda a total of 1980 acres or 90 per cent of the acreage burned over on the dixi dist forest 1 in the thirteen year period these three disastrous fires were preventable they weis all caused by local citizens the hunting season is coming and with it the haz ard that thus for has brought to fa t the th e dixie its greatest loss from r i fire carelessness by a few hunters lets make it unanimous and everybody be careful with fire in the woods the supervisor said |