FOREST FIRES IN U.S. AND CANADA: FRONT SPREADS
NEW YORK, August 23 (Rec 10 a.m.).—The forest fire front spread today to Maine, where the drought has made the mountain timber explosively dry. Seven other States and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada were battling with fires 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 in damage. An army of fire-fighters in Quebec Province last night turned the five-mile fire front away from the Laurentian mountain villages of Terrebonne Heights and Pinecourt, from which hundreds of residents had been evacuated. Officials in San Diego County, California, today took emergency control action when the ninth fire broke out. Winds of 40 miles an hour raced across Idaho, but the fire-fighters reported that they were beginning to gain against the blazes in Hell’s Canyon gorge of Snake River and in the Yellowstone National Park.
Thirty-five thousand acres of America’s richest timberlands were ablaze this morning.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1949, Page 5
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