CAUSES OF FOREST FIRES 

 (Number of Fires — 1964) 



By 

 Source of Ignition 



Fires 



By 



Responsible Group 



Fires 



Smoking Material 



Hot Box 



Brake Shoe 



Steam Locomotive 



Diesel Locomotive 



Fusee 



Tie Burning 



Power Saw 



Mechanical Equipment 



Spark from Burner 



Sawdust Pile Burning 



Right-of-way Burning 



Prescribed Burning 



Playing with Matches 



Sparks from Chimney 



Garbage Dump Burn 



Rubbish Burning 



Brush Burning 



Grass Burning 



Burning Bulldozed Piles 



Camp Fires 



Power Line (short circuit) 



Structural Fire 



Explosives 



Fireworks 



Miscellaneous (Known) 



Unknown 



Lightning 



Dumped live ashes or coals 



476 Fisherman 



1 Hunter 

 8 Canoeist 



— Picknicker 

 14 Berry Picker 



8 Camper 



3 Private Cottager 



2 Commercial Resort Owner 

 13 Guided Party 



3 Children 



1 Youth Group 



17 Car Passenger 



4 Train Passenger 



110 Indian (on Reserve only) 



9 Timber Cruiser 



33 Logging Operation Woods Industry 



60 Land Survey Party 



47 Trapper 



50 Prospector 



4 Mining Employee 

 246 Pipeline Employee 



29 Hydro Employee 



26 Highway or Road Employee 



— Municipal Employee 



18 Telephone Company Emplovee 



— R.R. Train Crew 



51 R.R. Section Crew 

 591 R.R. Work Crew 



5 Other Industrial Employee 

 Farmer 



1,829 Resident Rural (not Farmer) 



Resident Urban 

 Military 

 Unknown 

 Hiker 

 Lightning 

 L. & F. Employee 

 Other Provincial Govt. Employee 

 Federal Govt. Employee 



221 

 81 

 16 

 20 

 50 

 58 

 63 

 11 

 4 



121 

 15 

 92 

 26 

 13 



19 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



37 



6 



14 



1 



31 



21 



5 



11 



45 



97 



12 



2 



85 



53 



591 



1 



1 



1 



1,829 



MEANS OF FIRE DETECTION 



1963 



1964 



Lands and Forests Towers 



Lands and Forests Aircraft 



Commercial Aircraft 



Private Aircraft 



Lands and Forests Personnel 



Other Provincial Government Employees 

 Public 



23,210 



23,523 



22,298 

 116 



20,956 



18,616 



