APPENDIX IV. 



Prelimi- 

 nary 



organisa- 

 tion. 



STANDING ORDERS FOR RANQE OFFICERS. 



Fire protection in the plains, 



Beating out fire and counter fir ing, 



The general technique. 



Seating out fires and counter firing.. 



On receipt of a fire report the Range Officer should send imme- 

 diate intimation to the Divisional Forest Officer. He should 

 send messages out in all directions for labour, warn the neighbour- 

 ing Range Officers, issue orders for the rapid conveyance of neces- 

 sary tools, water utensils and water carts to the scene of the out- 

 break and then proceed thither with all available labour. In the 

 absence of the Range Officer the senior official present will perform 

 his duties and continue to do so until relieved by the Range Officer 

 who should then take entire charge of the operations. It is 

 essential that the Range Offic e r should invariably carry his range 

 map when going to fires,, for he will find that it will prove of 

 substantial help to him in working out on the spot his general plan 

 to fight the fire. Especially will he find this to be the case when he 

 does not possess sufficient knowledge of the locality. Instances are 

 known where such an imperfect knowledge coupled with the absence 

 of a map have resulted in the adoption of wrong measures. Where 

 communications by telephone is possible the Range Officer should 

 be accompanied by a cyclist -patrol carrying a portable telephone 

 whose duty it will be to transmit the Range Officer's messages 

 from time to time to the Divisional Officer, furnishing the latter 

 with full details and thus keeping him in constant touch with the 

 progress achieved. 



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