Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Forest Fires in the Intermountain Region
Down the city street comes the wild clang of a gong and the roar of heavy wheels. Nearer and nearer come the trucks at full speed, while automobiles and pedestrians scatter before them. Everything gives way to the fire department as, it speeds to the fire. Perhaps we, too, hurry along with the crowd in the direction it has gone and watch the men as they work with the powerful engines, high ladders, and great streams of water to put out the ?ames that are destroying the stores and homes men have labored hard to build and the merchan dise they have struggled to acquire. Good they got here when they did, we say to our neighbors standing near, or the whole thing would have burned up. Must have lost a thousand dollars as it is, someone replies.
Similar scenes on a smaller scale are common in towns and Villages, where the clanging of the fire bell arouses the volunteer fire fighters. They rush out the hose and hurry to the scene of the fire, bending every energy to prevent the ?ames from destroying valuable property.
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