FOREST FIRES SPREAD
Valuable Timber Lands Destroyed EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS (N.Z.P.A.- Copy right I (Rec. 10.0) NEW YORK, August 23. The forest fire front spread today to Maine, where the drought has made mountain timber explosively dry. Seven other States and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada were battling with fireis in rich timberlands. Officials said that Maine was fast approaching the extreme drought conditions of 1947, when forest fires cost 16 lives and 30,000,000 dollars damage. An army of fire-fighters in Quebec province last night turned the fivemile fire front away from the Laurentian mountain villages of Terrebonne Heights and Pinecourt, from which hundreds of residents have been evacuated. Officials in San Diego County, California, to-day took emergency conlrol action when the ninth fire broke out. Windis of 40 miles an hour raced across Idaho, but fire-fighters reported that they were beginning to gain against the blazes in the Hells Canyon Gorge of the Snake River and in Yellowstone National Park.
Thirty-five thousand acres of America’s richest timberlands were ablaze this morning.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19490824.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 267, 24 August 1949, Page 3
Word Count
175FOREST FIRES SPREAD Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 267, 24 August 1949, Page 3
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.