San Francisco, July 19.
With 2,000 men failing to control a spreading, roaring 1,200-acre fire sweeping the Redcap prairie area north-east of Eureka, the United States Forest Service summoned 150 volunteers tóday in the hope of halting the blaze from making further headway.
Raging brush and timber fires in eight national forests in northern California were taxing the Foresters to the utmost. Civilian Conservation Corps youths were pressed into immediate service as the Foresters brought all their latest equipment into play.
No fewer than 355 fires were reported in the timber and brush areas throughout the United States. Aerial observers believed the fires in northern California to be more numerous than ever before on record. Fires throughout the country's forests were increasing especially in northern California because of today's lightning and storms.
With all available C.C.C, ren draffed to fight the California fires, ihe Forest Service chartered three airplanes, The planes will search for new outbreaks and also drop food tied to parachutes to men fighting fires—United Press.
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