UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FO REST SERVICE 



om the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office) 



.II CARRIERS TO 

 REPORT FOREST FIRES 



Y r ord is received from Washington that the practice, 

 begun in 1912, of having forest fires along mail routes reported 

 to State firewardens by the Government mail carriers v/ill bo con- 

 tinued during the coming fire season. 



Forest officers believe that there are possibilities in 

 this form of patrol which hitherto have not been fully take n ad- 

 vantage of by the State. Oftentimes the mail carriers havee r (ports 

 to make but find no one ready to act on them, and fires that might 

 easily have been extinguished are thus permitted to grow to large 

 proportions. 



An effort will be made this season to have the fire, 

 wardens meet the carriers personally and arrange a reporting system 

 and hold themselves in readiness to take whatever action is requir- 

 ed as soon as reports are received. 



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