| Show utah C C C workers learn to fight fires in ashley catl forest OGDEN if they have hava accomplished nothing else at least the utahna who aie members of the civilian conservation unit at the kaler hollow camp on oil the ashley national foi forest est have learned to I 1 fight fires C N woods assistant regional forester thursday was in ill receipt of a letter from james 0 stewat supervisor of tl the ile ashley forest at vernal informing mr air woods that tire five beys constituted the best rhe file crew I 1 ever saw on a tire fire in the ashley forest I 1 sir air james said eald that the current season is the digest lie has ever empei experienced fenced arid and that considerable hazard yet exists the letter to mr air woods reads we had a rather nasty class C fire class C covers an area 0 of ten acres or more moi d recently on green river in douglas fir a and nd lodgepole pine co cohering Nering approximately it was in a blind area in fit a basin near the liver arid and got a good start before it was detected within 30 minutes aft r it was reported we iad 50 or more local C C C men on oil their vay nay and increased numbers to 72 within a few hours tills this was the best fire crew I 1 ever saw on oil a fire despite the fact that the ilire was in a very rough place every everything tiling very dry and a high wind prevailed they had tile the blazs blaze well in liand hand before noon the following day we thou thought git we had a dry season here in ill 1931 but it was wet compared with this season we have just been lucky so far that ws na had more fires there is still quits quite a lot of hazard azard Ii although fall fali weather helps mr air woods explained that most of the members of the kaler hollow cami which is known as 1 F 3 are from uta ii the camp is about 25 miles north of vernal on oil the crest of the uintah mountains bains |
