Show federal state local officials hold fire meeting tuesday ranger julian thomas and sheriff tulley harvey were hosts tuesday to federal and state range fire officials and men who will be lire fire leaders at the ranger station west of town officials in attendance at the one day clinic included Q david hanson ranger at moab dale kinnamon with the bureau of land management W E assistant state forester in charge of the fire training program sheriff R burr of moab julian thomas local forest ranger and sheriff tulley harvey who is fire coordinator for this area there were about 35 men in attendance for the allday all day instructions demonstrations and movies provided by W E who was instructor for the days activities at noon a big dinner was served 0 to o the men the program started in the morning when mr with a blazing fire going demonstrated to the group methods of mopping up and extinguishing a fire men were assigned tasks while others took note of the procedures followed by fire warden mr in his lectures a emphasized the importance of leadership and instructions iri id com batting range fires nothing art mr said is as good in eliminating fires as a fire conscious public who think he added that the fellow who is thinking will not start a fire its the man not thinking who is dangerous whose friends call him emer has 35 years of for estry and firefighting fire fighting experience to his credit when I 1 was 56 years old emer said the biggest strain of all came when four of us battled an 80 acre fire southeast of morgan we nye walked all night and arrived at the fire near a m it was too cold to nap na p and rest so we just started working the fire we were relieved that evening veteran fire fi fighter said he felt that this fire was his best accomplishment and the hardest movies shown in the afternoon demonstrated more te techniques ch of range fire fighting and was followed by a question and answer period the fire program is set up in this state as the utah COO cooperative P firefighting organization under this system each area is assigned a per diem guard who is in charge in case of a range fire sheriff tulley harvey who is coordinator for this area has the job of coordinating the functions and operations between the per diem guards organization of this system has played an important role in suppressing fires in utah since its instigation reported mr in 1941 acres of state and private land was burned since then the cooperative fire organization was started and in 1950 only 2300 acres was reported to have burned in utah pictures taken at the scene of the gathering could not be processed in time for this edition of the record but will be in a subsequent issue |