FIRE THE GREAT DESTROYER 



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BINGHAMTON 



THE YEARLY FIRE SCAR 



Each year about twenty thousand forest fires sweep across an area of more than 

 12 million acres. Bulked together these fires would create annually a blackened 

 desolate region extending throughout the heart of America. 



Each year fires like these take toll of human lives, of prop- 

 erty, of livestock, crops in the field, and sometimes whole 

 towns. These are the great dramatic fires that fill the papers 



