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Show Permit Heeded To Build Range Fires Utah's Chief Forester-Firewarden has proclaimed a closed season making all unpermitted fires on Utah forests and watersheds water-sheds illegal. J. Whitney Floyd noted in his proclamation that most of Utah's mountain areas have received re-ceived subnormal amounts of winter precipitation and have been subjected to an unusually dry spring season and it will be necessary to practice extreme ex-treme vigilance to prevent widespread destruction of our watersheds by wild fire. Utah's burning permit system allows land owners and others to use fire for trash disposal and for range land improvement purposes pur-poses while checking indiscriminate indiscrim-inate and careless use of fires. During the closed season as designated by the Chief Forester, Forest-er, the law requires anyone desiring de-siring to set on fire any forest, range, grass or brush lands a written permit issued by a County or District Firewarden. It is the Firewarden's responsibility responsi-bility to assure himself that adequate safeguards are provided provid-ed to protect life and property. Securing a permit does not relieve re-lieve a burner of liability for a fire he may set but it does alert all protection agencies of the presence of a fire saving many dollars in needless "Smoke Chasing." A i recently appointed Firewarden, Fire-warden, Jess Hullinger, listed four important points to remember: re-member: "(1) Check with me to see if the type fire you expect ex-pect to' light requires a permit; (2) Request a written permit stating the place, time and the reason for your fire; (3) Be extremely ex-tremely careful with any fire; and (4) If weather conditions take an abrupt change after you have started the fire, do not hesitate to call immediately for help." Mr. Hullinger requested all citizens for their aid in preventing prevent-ing wild fire losses so' that Utah's watersheds will be able to produce maximum quantities of useable water. |