FOREST FIRE-FIGHTING
Sir, —After the Balmoral fire last year, local residents were blamed for damaging equipment by throwing it on to trucks. If this equipment was so delicate >t should have been loaded by forestry workers who knew how to handle it. It is understandable that the Forest Service cannot maintain a large fire-fighting force. I believe, j however, that greater use could be
made of local farmers and equipment. These farmers, under their local fire wardens, could be organised into selfcontained fire-fighting units, each making use of available trucks, tanks, and men. These district wardens would be in contact with a liaison officer who would in turn be in touch with the fire chief. Surely these mon would be as good as the soldiers who arrived in time to contemplate the smouldering ashes.—Yours, etc.. RYE-WOB. July 5, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28013, 6 July 1956, Page 3
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