With a raging forest fire still threatening to set lumber camps and villages in the Campbell River regia ablaze, H.M.S. York, a British di troyer, joined the Canadian destroyer: Fraser and St, Laurent at Comox Bay today for aid or possibly eva hundreds of workers and res facing danger.
Regions near Courtenay and Cumber land were made safe because fires those regions were completely under control but the flames in the Campbell River area were still out of hand despite all efforts of hundreds of fire-fighters to prevent the fire from spreading toward the settlements on the outskirts of the timber-
Jands—United Press Storm Clouds Bring Hope San Francisco, July 26, Forest Service officials reported today gathering storm clouds over Northern California gave hope of aid from rain in fighting the worst series of forest fires on the West Ca twenty years. The total number fires in the State has risen to more than 400, Foresters hope that moisture laden winds from the Pacific will bring rain within the next few days.—United Press.
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