thus one cause of the spread of fire is greatly diminished, but 

 this is a method which it is impossible to apply to the forest. 

 No kind of trees but wooden ones can be grown. 



Education goes far to make a city fire-proof. The man who 

 carelessly throws away a lighted match or cigar stub is a 

 menace to a city in the same way that he is a menace to the 

 forest. The man who leaves inflammable material lying about 

 in piles and in places where fire is likely to fall among it is 

 the cause of many a fire in the city as well as in the forest. 

 The man who lights a fire and leaves it to its own sweet will 

 is a danger to the forest no less than to the city. Education 

 against carelessness with fire will stop the fire before it starts. 



Every modern city has its system of call boxes located at 

 strategic points throughout the city from which notice can 

 immediately be sent to the central station of the occurrence of 

 any fire, and in addition to this telephone wires all over the 

 city afford an opportunity to send in warning from almost 

 every house. Fires make little headway before notice is given. 

 Stop the fire at the start must be the motto. In the forest the 

 only way of ensuring safety is to follow a similar method as 

 fully as possible. All forest fire organizations which are really 

 attacking the problem in a serious way are building telephone 

 lines which communicate with the central fire ranger station. 

 Inasmuch as the population of the forest is not as a rule very 

 numerous or well distributed to observe fire, it is also neces- 

 sary that the fire guardians should have elevated points of 

 vantage from which they can have an outlook over a consid- 

 erable area of forest and watch for the light columns of smoke 

 that give quick evidence of any fire being started. 



Having information of the fire is however only the first 

 stage. In every city a permanent fire fighting organization is 

 established and the services of these men are available at any 

 moment to go immediately to any fire. Trained in the fighting 

 of fire and the use of apparatus in connection therewith and 

 physically and mentally fit for the great strain which fire fight- 

 ing puts on the physical powers and on the morale of men, the 

 character of men of the fire-fighting organization has a great 

 deal to do in making a city fire-proof. And in no less degree 

 is the character of the men who have to handle the fighting 



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