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Officer or the senior official present at a fire. When 

 any official senior to the Eange Officer is present the 

 latter will refer when possible to the former for orders, 

 hut it will generally be most satisfactory to leave the 

 executive control to the Eange Officer under the 

 control and advice of the senior official. The official 

 controlling the fighting of a fire is not expected or 

 wanted to work like a cooly except at critical moments 

 when personal example is of great value. Generally 

 he has to save his strength and get the maximum he 

 can out of the others working on fire. Oae of his 

 first duties is to arrange for the summoning of the 

 necessary help from contractors and right holding 

 villages, etc. He should limit his demands in this 

 respect according to the circumstances and should not 

 unnecessarily oppress the people by summoning them 

 from long distances. In some cases distant villagers 

 might be summoned for the day after the fire to take 

 their share in putting out stumps, etc., this would give 

 such people a chance of coming with less discomfort. 

 Another important point is the provisioning and 

 water supply for workers. Men should always be sent 

 off for water at an early hour and easily consumed 

 food should be sent for when necessary. The cost of. 

 food will be borne by Government in all cases. 

 (vi) Regarding the payment of labour employed in putting 

 out fires, a roll should be taken of all those present 

 when the running fire has been put out or ringed in. 

 This should be done as the men were either appointed 

 to a particular part of the boundary of the burnt area 

 to watch and put out stumps, or sent with messages 

 for help, or to fetch food, etc., or in the event of their 

 having done a fair share of work and not being longer 

 required, when they were allowed to go. The people 



