where the fire was crowning and setting spot fires 

 by the dozen in green timber below the line. The 

 main camp was in danger of being wiped out at any 

 time should the wind take a freakish turn, and 

 trenches had been put in all around it with fire 

 within a few yards of the tents and equipment that 

 had been assembled there. 



Plans were carefully made to reach a place of safety 

 and we had everything framed up to go around a 

 little hill into a portion of the burned area which was 

 beginning to cool if we had to abandon the outfit 

 and run. The fire that I speak of spread away from 

 us on one side for a distance of 6 or 7 miles that day 

 toward Rocky Ridge and Weitos Creek, burned about 

 800 head of sheep and destroyed several thousand 

 acres of timber. It was held from spreading over the 

 lines which had actually been constructed and kept 

 out of the valuable Holo Creek Watershed, where 

 there is estimated to be about 600 million feet of 

 merchantable timber. After that day the main fire 

 had passed so far beyond us that we could only fight 

 it on one side. It worked over and joined another 

 big fire in the Oxford District. By holding it on one 

 side with 12 or 14 miles of fire line the entire Holo 

 Watershed was saved, and I feel that this fire fight- 

 ing work, which I had some small part in, really did 

 considerable good. 



After the big blow-up, I was given charge of a 

 patrol camp with about 40 men to cover about 6 

 miles of line. We organized the patrol men into 

 squads and shifts. A day and night shift to patrol 

 stations for three miles East and three miles West 



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