1914-15 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 



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(a) Conductors, engineers, or trainmen who discover or receive notice of 

 the existence and location of a fire burning upon or near the right-of-way, or of a 

 fire which threatens land adjacent to the right-of-way, shall report the same by 

 wire to the Superintendent, and shall also report it to the agent or persons in 

 charge at the next point at which there shall be communication by telegraph or 

 telephone, and to the first section employees passed. Notice of such fire shall 

 also be given immediately by a system of warning whistles. 



( 6 ) It shall be the duty of the Superintendent or agent or person so informed 

 to notify immediately the nearest forest officer and the nearest section employees 

 of the railway, of the existence and location of such fire. 



Fig 7 Uumnants of previous forest growth shown in old pine stumps. 



started in blow sand. 



Young pine 



(c) When fire is discovered, presumably started by the railway, such section- 

 men or other employees of the railway as are available shall either independently 

 or at the request of any authorized forest officer proceed to the fire immediately 

 and take action to extinguish it; provided such sectionmen or other employees 

 are not at the time engaged in labours immediately necessary to the safety of trains. 



(d) In case the sectionmen or other employees available are not a sufficient 

 force to extinguish the fire promptly, the railway company shall, either indepen- 

 dently or at the request of any authorized forest officer, employ such other labourers 

 as may be necessary to extinguish the fire; and as soon as a sufficient number 

 of men, other than the sectionmen and regular employees, are obtained, the 

 sectionmen and other regular employees shall be allowed to resume their regular 

 duties. 



