FOREST FIRE "DON'TS" 



TO OBTAIN the cooperation of Florida, and from the Atlantic coast as 



the public in preventing forest far West as Arkansas, have been 



fires which are doing a great burned over already this spring by fires 



deal of damage in the East this which started for the most part from 



spring, the United States Forest Service preventable causes. On the National 



has prepared ten "DON'TS;' to be Forest purchase areas alone, forty-nine 



observed m the woods. It is hoped ^^^^ occurred in March, burning over 



that these rules mav have a beneficial ^^^^ .u a znn ^.■^ t ^ r 



effect during the fire season of the ^ore than 6,500 acres, while forty-four 



Southern Appalachians, which is not ^^es starting on pnvate land near or 



yet over, and that of the north woods, '^'^^^^ government boundaries damaged 



which is just beginning and which, ^^^^^^ ^-^^O acres. Fires m April 



from present indications, promises to be ^^^re even more numerous and severe, 



unusually severe. but rains in the latter part of the month 



Many thousands of acres of forest helped the situation somewhat. Fire 



and suburban woodland from Maine to statistics for April are not yet available. 



THE "DON'TS" 



1 . Don't throw your match away until you are sure it is out. 



2. Don't drop cigarette or cigar butts until the glow is extinguished. 



3. Don't knock out your pipe ashes while hot or where they will fall into dry 

 leaves or other inflammable material. 



4. Don't build a camp fire any larger than is absolutely necessary. 



5. Don't build a fire against a tree, a log, or a stump, or anywhere but on 

 bare soil. 



6. Don't leave a fire until you are sure it is out; if necessary smother it 

 with earth or water. 



7. Don't burn brush or refuse in or near the woods if there is any chance 

 that the fire may spread beyond your control, or that the wind may carry sparks 

 where they would start a new fire. 



8. Don't be any more careless with fire in the woods than you are with fire 

 in your own home. 



9. Don't be idle when you discover a fire in the woods; if you can't put it 

 out yourself, get help. Where a Forest Guard, Ranger, or State Fire Warden 

 can be reached, call him up on the nearest telephone you can find. 



10. Don't forget that human thoughtlessness and negligence are the causes 

 of more than half of the forest fires in this country, and that the smallest spark 

 may start a conflagration that will result in loss of life and destruction of tunber 

 and young growth valuable not only for lumber but for their influence in helping 

 to prevent flood, erosion, and drought. 



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