304 THE PRINCIPLES OF HANDLING WOODLANDS 



circumstances is to direct the course of the fire. The 

 attack is made on the sides near the front, separating the 

 forward portion of the fire from the main wings. A part 

 of the crew attacks the forward part and others run down 



Fig. 63. Fighting a Ground Fire by Trenching. 



and extinguish the wings. The front of the fire, attacked 

 from the sides, is forced gradually and constantly into a 

 narrower path. Usually the front can be directed toward 

 some cleared space, road, pond, stream, swamp, or fire- 

 line, when it will be checked enough to admit of a direct 



