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Fire 'Storms'
Hazard Worst
In California
70,000 Acres of Water
shed Burned, Adding
To Flood Danger
By GARBER DAVIDSON
LOS 'ANGELES lVt-This year,
as every year, great black, ugly
scars are spreading farther and
farther over the foothills and
mountains of southern California.
The area of valuable' watershed
blackened by fire during this dis
astrous season now totals more
than 70,000 acres and the holo
caust proceeds. Every acre of
watershed that is burned off adds
to the flood danger when the
rains come later in the winter.
Professional firefighters agree
that California is probably I h e
worst place in '.he nation for ex
plosive . brush and forest blaze.
Sometimes sun-baked brush is so
lacking in moisture there isn't
anything to crackle and the
blaze races with a terrible swift
ness and silence against the un
warned firefighter.
Last Sunday 11 trapped men
died fighting a vast blaze in San
Diego County's Cleveland Nation
al Forest that is still burning. The
men were " surprised by a wind
shift, forced back against a cliff
and boxed in.
"There was no confusion," said
a survivor, Lionel Wood. "We did
not know the fire was coming be
cause it didn't make any noise."
Sudden wind shifts, or heat
produced turbulence called "fire
storms," can be as bad. This was
the cause of California's most
deadly fire in October 1933. Twenty-eight
firefighters were trapped
and killed in a canyon in Los
Angeles' Griffith Park, a large
wooded area.
Fifteen men died July 12, 1963,
in a Mendocino National Forest
fire in northern California when
a smoldering section of brush sud
denly flared up.
In a survey of firefighters and
officials throughout the state most
of them emphasized that Califor
nia, and particularly southern Cal
ifornia, is a top fire hazard area
because of dryness, wind condi
tions, widespread vegetation and
steep topography.
There have been three major
fires in southern California this
season the Cleveland forest blaze
and two in the San Bernardino
Mountains. One of the latter start
ed Aug. 21, burned over 10,250
acres, and destroyed several
structures. The other started Nov.
19, burned across 15,296 acres,
razed several homes and struc
tures and cost the life of one fire
fighter. . - :-
Boy Confesses
Setting Blaze
ThatKilledll
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UP)- A 16
ycar old Indian boy has confessed
to setting a 44,500-acre forest lire
which burned to death 11 fire
fighters. "I just got a crazy idea to throw
a match in the grass to see if
it would burn," Gilbert Paipa, a
high school student, told Elwood
Stone, U.S. Forest Service fire in
vestigator. The boy was arrested Wednes
day at the Pine Hills fire camp
where he had been employed as
a firefighter two days ago. The
Forest Service said he confessed
lo tossing a match last Saturday
in grass near a .:abin on the
lnaja Indian Reservation where
his family has lived for two gen
erations. Paipa was turned over to au
thorities here. Stone said a felony
complaint was being sought from
Deputy District Attorney Calude
Brown.
Tot Burns to
Death in Car
SITV!.4T Calif. (I'P) A panic
stricken mother saw her 22-month
old daughter burn to dcatn
U'nrfnpsrtav after her 4-vcar old
ton ihreui lighted matches in the
family car, police reported.
The victim was Susan Bordeau.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ilonald
F. Bordeau, ol nearby Sun Valley.
rtMorc cniri Mrs. Bordeau left the
children in the car while she
iliMmJ in a market.
A clerk in the market noticed
the car was in flames. .Mrs. isnr
deau ran outside and had to be
restrained from entering the ourn
Police said the boy apparently
found the matches in the glove
compartment of the car.
Detroit Wars
On Diphtheria
DETROIT i UP) A ne out
r Hinhihrria todav spurred
Detroit health officials to coll for
immnnirntlnn shots lor 100.000
school children,
n, i.nh r. Molner. city
health commissioner, said his de
partment hoped to complete the
inoculation program before the
t tU rhriatmflf holldaV'S.
flan ui inc -
w-i - tin nrrlprrd the pro-
iiiuuici Ban
gram after 13 new cases of diph
theria were reported in the city
Wednesday. He said the shots
would be administered to children
on the city's lower ea:-t and west
lide. which he called "critical sections."
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