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Show Timberland Burns In Southwest Duchesne County Some 200 acres, of timber land was burned in Rough Hollow, which is located about 25 miles southwest of Duchesne in the Duchesne Ranger District of the Ashley National Forest. Merlin I. Bishop, district forest ranger, said that the fire was caused by lightning and was first reported to him at 2:30 p.m. on June 12. The fire burned extremely extreme-ly hot for several hours during Bulletin ... A forest fire in Ashley National Na-tional Forest which started yesterday yes-terday about noon, was under control early this morning, according ac-cording to Mrs. Jess Palm, at the Altonah ranger station. The fire was. located in Bear Wallow west of Moon Lake. It started in a sawdust pile of a sawmill and spread to nearby timber. Mrs. Palm reported that a large number of fire-fighters turned out from several nearby communities to fight the blaze. No report on the number of acres burned was made available. the afternoon of June 12th and completely burned out one side canyon of dense Douglas fir timber. tim-ber. A crew of 12 men, 11 of them being recruited from Tabiona, were on the fire line shortly after daylight on the morning of June 13 and had the fire under control con-trol within 2 hours. Mop-up work continued for 2 long days and a 2-man crew patrolled the fire for 3 more days. The fire was declared declar-ed dead-out by Forest Service crew foreman Gilbert N. Chatwin of Tabiona, at 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 17th. |