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Canadian Forestry Journal, January, ipi6. 



Fire Automobile in Rocky Mountains Park, Banff, for transporting 

 portable fire pump, hose and other tools. 



Better Apparatus for Fire-Fighting 



By JJ. C. Johnson, 

 Fire Inspector, Board of Railway Coniijiissioners. 



Much has been done or suggested 

 in the prevention and discovery of 

 forest fires, but we have heard very 

 Httle of progress being made in the 

 methods of extinguishing fires. Ap- 

 parently this most important phase 

 of protection has been neglected. 

 Modern management of forested 

 a-reas, and modern trend in the dis- 

 covery of forest fires bids well to far 

 outpace the present methods used to 

 extinguish fires. In the matter of 

 extinguishing or combatting forest 

 fires a review of present day meth- 

 ods does not show up very w^ell 

 Avhen compared to the gigantic 

 strides made in the modern methods 

 of attacking fires in our cities and 

 towns. An extract from the annual 



report report'for 1911, United States-; 



Forest Service states as follows : 

 "An analogy has often been 

 pointed out between protecting 

 forests and protecting cities 

 against fire ; this analogy is 

 worth reiterating. City pro- 

 perty cannot ^be made reason- 

 al)ly safe unless there are, first: 

 regulations to lessen fire risk in 

 the form of building ordinances, 

 rules regarding combustibles, 

 etc. : secondly : a considerable 

 investment in signals (fire alarm 

 boxes), fire fighting apparatus 

 and quarters, and thirdly, an 

 adequate and well-organized 

 force of disciplined men suit- 

 ablv located. So forests must 



