RAILWAY FOREST FIRES 11 



measiires such railway companies shall take for the establishment 

 and maintenance of said specially organized force. Said statements 

 among other matters may provide for — 



(a) The number of men to be employed on the said forcer 

 their location and general duties, and the methods and frequency 

 of the patrol ; 



(b) The acquisition and location of necessary equipment for 

 transporting the said force from place to place, and the acquisition 

 and distribution of suitable fire-fighting tools ; and 



(c) Any other measures which are considered by him to be 

 essential for the immediate control of fire and may be adopted at 

 reasonable expense. 



13. Whenever and while all the locomotive engines used 

 upon any such railway, or any portion of it, bum nothing but oil 

 as fuel, during the aforesaid prescribed period, under such condi- 

 tions as the Board may approve, the Board will relieve the said 

 railway of such portions of these regulations as may seem to it safe 

 and expedient. 



14, The sectionmen and other employees, agents, and con- 

 tractors of every such railway company shall take measures to 

 report and extinguish fires on or near the right-of-way, as fol- 

 lows : 



(a) Conductors, engineers, or trainmen who discover or 

 receive notice of the existence and location of a fire burning upon 

 or near the right-of-way, or of a fire which threatens land adjacent 

 to the right-of-way, shall report the same to the agent or persons in 

 charge at the next point at which there shall be communication by 

 telegraph or telephone, and to the first section employees passed. 

 Notice of such fire shall be also given immediately by a system of 

 warning whistles. 



(6) It shall be the duty of the agent or person so informed to 

 notify immediately the nearest forest officer and the nearest 

 section employees of the railway, of the existence and location of 

 such fire. 



(c) When fire is discovered, presumably started by the rail- 

 way, such sectionmen or other employees of the railway as are 

 available shall either independently or at the request of any author- 

 ized forest officer proceed to the fire immediately and take action 

 to extinguish it ; provided such sectionmen or other employees 

 are not at the time engaged in labours immediately necessary to 

 the safety of trains. 



(d) In case the sectionmen or other employees available are 

 not a sufficient force to extinguish the fire promptly, the railway 

 company shall, either independently or at the request of any 

 authorized forest officer, employ such other laboiurers as may be 

 necessary to extinguish the fire ; and as soon as a sufficient nvunber 

 of men, other than the sectionmen and regular employees are ob- 

 tained, the sectionmen and other regular employees shall be allowed 

 to resume their regular duties. 



