A handbook of forest protection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forests and forestry, Forestry law and legislation
Publisher: [Charleston, W. Va., Tribune printing co.]
Published: 1914-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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See to it that the ends of your back fire are safe. Run them together if possible, thus surrounding the main fire, or else run them into portions that have burnt out, or to a stream or road. A back fire is just as dangerous as the original one unless it is perfectly safe throughout its whole length.

Watch the fire line after the fire is under control. Sparks blown from burning snags, chunks thrown from falling trees, and many other things may cross the fire line. Keep some one on guard.

If,-after you have exhausted every effort and the fire is still out of control telegraph the forest, game and fish warden, Belington, W. Va., collect, and help will be furiiished whenever possible.

Use your best judgment in fighting fires when you are in charge as local conditions make it impossil)le to give any iron clad rules to follow. If some one else is in charge obey his instructions.

r.unihrr Companies —All.lumber companies operating steam railroads should equip their engines with the best fire fighting paraphernalia possible and the following suggestions are made for this equipment and means of combatting fires :

(1) Proper stacks and screens. (2) Barrels of water along steep grades, at intervals, where there are no streams of water that have a steady flow in dry weather. (3) Equipment for all engines, such as hose and all attachments necessary to handle water nuickly and efficiently, to extinguish fires which start along the railroad. (4) Winter tank car for emersrencies. ('t) A patrol should be made after all trains in dry weather. (6) A careful inspection should be made at resrular periods of all equipment. (7) Instructions should be issued to all section crews and employees to be on the lookout for fires and just what they should do toward extinTuishing same. (S) All inflammable material should be removed from along tracks for at least flfty foet on either sidf. (0) In extreme dry weather trains should not be run during the dry portion of the day. If trains are run during the early morning, late evening and after night much danger from fire will be avoided.

Railroads —.Ml of the above rules that are practical and possible of enforcement should be used by main liup railroads as well as the lumber roads. If the proper officials of all railroads will issue written instructions to their employees to carry out the provisions of the forest laws applicable to

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