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Show Draper home where chile ?:;: with matches had set f i . -; of hay in a barn. No i-;e: done at the Draper plaa :. The efficiency with w!: t cal firemen handle situ . -u as those of Friday mc is when the department i -v from the city was forcef,- strated. A man was left- ; station here with a full j r chemicals to protect loc.-;; The Pleasant Grove fin .. . notified and he and his 'V ready for a call to Am ,'.:, or Lehi should fire brea j"" the departments were a."c The Pleasant Grove ct;-' notified Provo in the ( should break out in Pie that protection to the prTi;s was assured should their :"ir be here or at Lehi. In ;: i; property owners are giv: E tection while the depart called out. o . ........... C A Fire Destroys HayBarns Little boys and matches again proved a dangerous combination when hay and barns valued near fifteen hundred dollars were destroyed de-stroyed by fire Friday morning at the Ferre Beck farm in Highland. The fire is said to have started in the cow bam which had a board floor and before the attention of Mr. Beck was called to the flames the barns were a blazing inferno. Alarms were sounded in American Fork and Lehi for help and the local department arrived at the farm a short time ahead of the Lehi department. de-partment. When the firemen got to the fire no water was available within a distance of a half mile. The American Fork firemen ran out all the regular hose connecting it with the Lehi department hose and j still there was not enough to reach! the only source of water so both departments coupled on their small hose which barely reached.. The fire had gained such headway before the departments could get to the fire (and handicapped as they were with the lack of water, little could be done to save Beck's hay and barns. Coops, barns, haystacks, etc. be-' longing to George F. White 'adjoining 'adjoin-ing the Beck barns were directly in line of the fire and would have been destroyed had not the firemen of both departments worked heroically. Beck suffered the loss of twenty tons cf alfalfa, ten tons of straw, the cow barn and other small out buildings. It was first thought the pigs were burned but these were later discovered peacefully "dining" in another field. Chickens also escaped the blaze.. The firemen had barely returned! to the city, having spent five hours! at the Beck fire, when a second! alarm was sounded and the depart- j ment was summoned to the Terry |