| Show forest and range fire fighters are being organized the forest and range fire fighters service has been established as an auxiliary forest and range fire fighting force to assist the established forest and range fire protection agencies to meet the present war emergency fire situation the office of civilian defense which operates through its regional office the state council of defense an and d county defense councils have the job of organizing the teams and training local leaders who will direct fire defense existing agencies cf federal state and local governments and private business all have volunteered as members of the team in utah the chief forest and range fire warden serves as state coordinator co of the OCD forest and range fire fighters Ser service vIve acting also with the direction of the fire defense committee of the state council oade bense forest and range fire fighters are enrolled and trained under the forest and range fire fighters service for the suppression of all fires that occur on lands lande needing fire protection the work of forest and range fire fighters is coordinated co closely under the county defense council with the functions of auxiliary firemen air raid wardens and other volunteers for civili civilian an defense agencies operating cooperating co with the OCD in supplying instruction information and leadership in forest lest and range fire fighting in elude clude the following I 1 state board of forestry fire control U S agricultural extension service county fire departments U S forest service U S grazing service national park service indian service and soil conservation Cn service the chinese when they retreated before the advancing japanese pursued the policy of scorched earh they set fire to the fields so that they would yield nothing t to the invaders so did the russians when the nazis invaded the ukraine so dd d d the british when they gave up malaya it is considered the most terrible thing you can do to the enemy and the greatest sacrifice you can make for victory to burn over your own land so that the enemy cannot live on it yet it is this thing we have been continued on page fivel five FOREST AND RANGE continued from page 1 doing here every year though no enemy has invaded our state and probably none will what others have done to spite and harm art an enemy we have done to ourselves we have burned up the land we have to live on we have scorched the earth that is our home our living our wealth our health we have put flames to our owr owns fields to our own woods handmade and made a charred wreck of natures Na Nat luies utes riches we have burned up the stalks grass and leaves that should haves have added fertility and humus to our soil nat only have we devE devastated stated our fields but we have let the fire escape into the mountains mountain sand and ranges sometimes even set fire deliberately and crippled for life or killed our growing trees and ancl wiped out our game we have done this sometimes through carelessness sometimes through the mistaken belief that it does good but uncontrolled fire does no good it only does evil I 1 fire is a destroyer it ii has destroyed the richness of our soil I 1 it has taken off the cover and the rains have come and washed away the earth and made gullies lets have no scorched earth policy for this state lets use our land to raise food and fiber for our soldiers and our citizens let us not turn loose consuming fire fit only to be a weapon against aru am enemy to destroy our own fairland let all the forces of or organ an iced agriculture schools churches civic clubs and governments sea be turned to prevent the annual dis aster this year let every community organize to put out and pret pre avent vent forest fires john E mcdonald is county co for the forest and range fire right fighters ers service and we earnestly urge each and every one of the citizens to contact mr mcdonald and join this worthy cause films will be shown at the local theatre saturday and sunday we urge all of the townspeople to take advantage of this opportunity t to 0 see these films which show the disastrous effects fires cirps have on oa range and timber land A fire fighters school will be held in monticello may 12 experienced perien ced fire fighters from salt lake city and ogden will be here to instruct fire fighters in the art of taking care not only of range fires but town fires as well and we urge the citizens to attend this school it is under the auspices of the U S forest Ser services viceL and the U S gra grazing zing service I 1 |
