By 

 Source of Ignition 



CAUSES OF FOREST FIRES 



By 



Fires 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 Fire 



Power Line (Short Circuit) 



Structural Fire 



Explosives 



Fireworks 



Miscellaneous (Known) 



Unknown 



Lightning 



Dumped Live Ashes or Coals 



Total 



329 Fishermen 164 



— Hunter 10 

 40 Canoeist 6 



— Picknicker 21 

 29 Berry Picker 40 



5 Camper 27 



2 Private Cottager 34 



3 Commercial Resort Owner 2 

 14 Guided Party — 



7 Children 198 



2 Youth Group 8 



9 Car Passenger 75 



— Train Passenger 2 

 117 Indian (on Reserve only) 9 



7 Timber Cruiser — 

 34 Logging Operation Woods Industry 18 

 52 Land Survey Party 2 

 29 Trapper 1 

 45 Prospector 5 



5 Mining Employee 7 



149 Pipeline Employee 



21 Hydro Employee 17 



18 Highway or Road Employee 7 



2 Municipal Employee 7 



55 Telephone Company Employee 3 



8 R.R. Train Crew 80 

 34 R.R. Section Crew 12 



202 R.R. Work Crew 12 



— Other Industrial Employee 6 



Farmer 22 



1,218 Resident Rural (not Farmer) 99 



Resident Urban ' 24 



Military — 



Unknown 53 



Hiker 32 



Lightning 202 



L. & F. Employee 1 



Other Provincial Govt. Employee 1 

 Federal Govt. Employee 



Miscellaneous (Known) 11 



1,218 



NUMBER OF FIRES (by Means of Fire Detection) 



1963 1964 



Lands and Forests Towers 620 611 



Lands and Forests Aircraft 206 178 



Commercial Aircraft 97 55 



Private Aircraft 19 34 



Lands and Forests Personnel 92 116 



Other Provincial Government Employees 27 41 



Public 824 794 



Totals 1,885 1,829 



NUMBER OF FIRE PERMITS ISSUED 

 1961 1962 1963 1964 



1965 



417 

 66 

 46 

 3 

 67 

 35 



584 



1,218 

 1965 



120 



