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stood out with more prominence than another during our past 

 firo season. Our "lessons learned" wore rather moro in the 

 nature of difficulties encountered, which were more or 

 loss anticipated, "but hard to ovorcemo. 



Expo ri one o during the past two seasons has proven 

 the difficulty of securing Just the right men for lookouts. 

 The job is isolated, constant and very trying on the nerves, 

 iJy solution of our lookout question is to equip these sta- 

 tions with comfortable quarters, so that married men can "be 

 induced to accept tho positions and take their wives with 

 them* This will moan also the building of better trails 

 to reach these peaks* 



Our greatest difficulty is in reaching fires after 



they are discovered, With our lookout system wo can lo- 

 cate fir os quickly enough, but cennot always reach them 

 with dispatch. This cannot bo remedied until the IPerest 

 becomes a notv/orh of trails and roado, That means improve- 

 ment money and plenty of it. 



Taking it on tho whole, I am inclined to believe 

 that riding patrol outweighs stationary patrol. There is 

 considerable to bo said on both sides, however, and I 

 think that whichever method appears to fit the particular 

 fire division should be adopted. One method we adopted, 

 that seomocL satisfactory whore it was pract icable , was for 



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