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Show 'Delayed Report' Forest Fire Held To Timber Stretch Of Sixty Acres Timber totaling several million mil-lion board feet, some already sold, was endangered Saturday when a forest fire started in Rough Hollow, a tributary of Timber canyon in the Strawberry Straw-berry river drainage. Fortunately Fortun-ately fire fighters were able to keep the fire-swept area down to a 60-acre stretch of yellow pine timber. The fire is believed to have been started by lightning Friday afternoon, and was -spotted by local people Saturday morning. However, it was not until 4:30 p. m. that the Forest Service received its first report, through Deputy Sheriff Orin Olson. The later sighted the fire from Blue Bench, and made his report to Ranger Earl Roberts, who determined de-termined the exact location by airplane. " Because of the holiday weekend week-end few men were available in the immediate area, and an appeal ap-peal was made by Ranger Roberts Rob-erts to adjacent areas. Supervisor Super-visor William Hurst, of the Ashley national forest, and Rangers John Tucker and William Wil-liam Rozynek, of the Wasatch and Uintah national forests, brought crews to Duchesne. Fire fighters volunteered from Duchesne Du-chesne county, Price, Heber, Provo, Hanna, and Vernal. Fire, Dispatcher Frank Stone, of the Wasatch forest, Salt Lake, sent a crew by special bus. A crew from Utah county, under the direction of Tennis Poulson, a native forester, was the first to reach the fire. Ranger Ran-ger Roberts said, after the fire was out, that more effort was expended in travel than in fire fighting because of the numerous numer-ous ledges and percipitous slopes. "The moral of this entire episode ep-isode should be unmistakable," he continued. "From now on anyone who sees a forest fire should report it to the forest ranger or county sheriff, immediately." |