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gaged -In during the dry season, due to the danger of 

 such a fire escaping. This work was performed hy a 

 crew of about twenty men under the direction of Mr. 

 Charles W. King, a former forest ranger. The crew 

 was divided into two squads - a trail squad and a 

 fire squad. The task of the former was to cut fire 

 trails dividing the area into l60 acre blocks and 

 following as far as possible the land subdivisions. 

 The tools employed were principally ax and shovel. 

 If on open ground, the trail was merely made to width 

 of the shovel. If through brush or reproduction, it 

 was extended two or three feet or wider, depending 

 upon the height and density of the cover. Snags with- 

 in thirty to fifty yards of the green edge of the block 

 were felled. The work was done in orderly and system- 

 atic fashion, the trail crew keeping two or three blods 

 ahead to the fire crew so as to provide lines upon 

 which they could fall back, should the fire by any 

 chance escape from one block into the next. In start- 

 ing the fires, the men were scattered along the fire 

 line of one of these l60 acre blocks. Firing did not 

 begin until the middle of the aftermoon, for fire burns 

 with less intensity at nightfall than it does during 

 the heat of the day. At a given time fires were set 

 simultaneo*|>ly along the fire lines. As soon, however, 

 as the edges of the block were burned froja fiftji to 

 one hundred fefst, the crew built numerous fires in- 

 side. In this way l60 acres could usuallybe turned 

 over in 4-6 hours. One unit having been burned, the 



