Show add to fire defenses defene about miles of communication lines truck trails and permanent fire defenses were b built in the national forests by the civilian oon con Berv atlon corps in the last year in addition more than wiles miles haw bare been completed by men employed with P IV A funds workers on these anil and other jobs also helped to check outbreaks of fire along with excessive drouth 1934 1034 brought an unusual number of dry thunderstorms in the western states starting starling hundreds of lightning fires in the forests following the storms drying winds whipped the glowing snags into flaming torches which spread the flames far and wide A total of fires broke out in the national forests up to september 10 this year compared with for the fhe same period in 1931 and an ay av of for the past three years fifty per cent of this tea ben sons fires were man caused |