AMERICAN FORESTRY 



761 



THE GAS PUMP USEFUL IN FIGHT- 

 ING FIRE 



"TJURING the sessions of the Northeastern 

 States Forest Fire Conference, held at 

 Albany last February, several references 

 were made by various speakers to the value 

 of the gas pump in forest fire work. Mr. 

 J. G. Peters, an official of the United States 

 Forest Service, said: "Last summer we 

 used for the first time one of the Fairbanks- 

 Morse pumps. It was very satisfactory." 

 Mr. Peters then proceeded to quote from a 

 report he had on the large fires at Brown's 

 Creek in Idaho: "For the next two weeks 

 the gas pump ran splendidly and almost 

 continuously day and night for the first 

 two or three days. Undoubtedly the gas 

 pump saved the day on Brown's Creek and 

 prevented the loss of the plank road, the 

 McGoldrick sawmill and logging camp and 

 io or is million feet of timber. The road 

 might possibly have been held with hand 

 pumps, but it is doubtful. . . . Un- 

 doubtedly the gas pump can be used to 

 advantage wherever a line ' is being held 

 along a stream paralleled by a road, trail 

 or fire line." 



The use of such portable fire fighting 

 equipment is quite general in Canada, two 

 or three hundred of the Fairbanks-Morse 

 outfits now being in use by lumber com- 

 panies, railroads and the Dominion Gov- 

 ernment, and it is claimed that under 

 severest tests they have given excellent 

 service. The necessity for a lightweight 

 portable pumping outfit, which can be 

 easily carried to the nearest water supply 

 in fighting forest fire is readily conceded. 

 It makes sure the supply of water for the 

 fire fighters, and can also be used to 

 dampen down the fire so that the men can 

 get closer up. Mr. Henry Sorgius, manager 

 of the St. Maurice Forest Fire Protective 

 Association, said that when they learned 

 that experiments with mechanical pump- 

 ing apparatus for fighting forest fires were 

 under way, they immediately acquired such 

 a pump and put it to practical use, supple- 

 menting the old fashioned equipment. He 

 said that they found it necessary after the 

 first season to have some minor changes 

 made in the pump but that since then they 

 have had no trouble whatever to start 

 it or keep it going. They have now pur- 

 chased several of these outfits and count 

 them as one of their largest assets in fire 

 fighting equipment. Mr. Sorgius said : 

 "On two occasions last summer these pumps 

 were a great help in saving two large store- 

 houses when a bush fire was threatening 

 to destroy them. We find it also very 

 economical to run, as it will run for one 

 hour on a gallon of gasoline." The pump 

 can be used for backfiring and controlling 

 slash burning operations as well as actual 

 fire fighting. 



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