. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 40-45. Forests and forestry. Photo by W. S. Taber The Patrol Must Be Vigilant Here if Safety Strips are not Provided Burning Ties Ties, if they must be burned, should be burned only on the right-of- way on the side of the track where there is the least danger and then only in the summer after a rain, or in the winter when there is a light cover of snow on the ground. No more than ten ties should be burned in one pile. While burning ties, right-of-way, safety strips, or fighting a forest fire the section men should not leave the ar
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 40-45. Forests and forestry. Photo by W. S. Taber The Patrol Must Be Vigilant Here if Safety Strips are not Provided Burning Ties Ties, if they must be burned, should be burned only on the right-of- way on the side of the track where there is the least danger and then only in the summer after a rain, or in the winter when there is a light cover of snow on the ground. No more than ten ties should be burned in one pile. While burning ties, right-of-way, safety strips, or fighting a forest fire the section men should not leave the area, unless fire guards remain, until everything is absolutely safe. '*No fire is out until the last spark is dead.^' Dinner Time on the Fire Line The lunches should be brought to the crew and should be eaten at the safety strip so as not to leave the danger unguarded. This is im- 15 portant since some safety strip fires escape when the men have gone away from the work to eat. Burning of safety strips ordinarily be- gins at 11 a. m. To stop at 3 p. m. and leave, allows too short a time to do much work on favorable days, which are few enough. The em- ployees should be allowed overtime on good days and the work con- tinued until dark. In the Weiser Forest District 45 per cent of the escaping fires occurred between three and four p. m., when the crews had left the fire lines unguarded or were hurrying with the work. During the spring and fall the right-of-way should be kept clean so that no fire can burn upon it and escape from it. FOREST FIRES FROM LUMBERING OPERATIONS Lumbering has its own forest fire dangers that must be met. A safety strip with a radius 150 feet or greater should be provided. A Source of Danger to the Woods- Spark Screen -Stack without a about the saw mill in the same manner as described for the preparation of safety strips along the railroads. The sawmill engine should be properly screened. The locies or dinkey engines should be screened, and in dangerous plac
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