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Show Foretelling Fire Hazards In Forest Areas During the spring of the year if the weather is clear and warm, we look into the great blue ball of the sky and predict a summer season of high fire hazard. This kind of spring weather is conducive con-ducive to early vegetative growth and early plant maturity. It is after the vegetation becomes mature and dry that it will burn rapidly and fiercely. If it matures ma-tures early we can expect a long fire season. Or, during the spring, instead of gazing into a great blue ball, we may be peering into a gray sky drizzling moisture down onto our Utah soil. In fact it may be a cool, wet, late spring. This means to those people thinking of fire that the vegetation will grow thick and rank when the weather does warm up. Surely, sooner or later, it must mature and become dry, making it a fire, hazard. The fire season may not be as long as usual, but it has the possibility of being very severe. No mattet" what type of spring weather we have, we know that any approaching summer season can bring with it great danger of many and severe fires. For this reason the period from June 10 to October 1 has been declared de-clared a closed season to unpermitted unper-mitted fires by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Control. So if you must burn, you may secure a permit to do so from the county coun-ty sheriff or county fire chief, who will Issue thd permit after he is satisfied that the fire can I be limited to the proposed area, and when he feels that weather conditions make safe burning possible. , |