Asheville, May 5 (AP)—With calls for aid from other forests proving futile because of the desperate fire situation that exists through the entire eastern section of the United States, foresters who are battling an apparently uncontrollable 20-acre blaze in the Boone area of Pisgah National Forest today drafted into service scores of school boys and Boy Scouts from the regions through which the flames are spreading with menacing speed.
Unaka National Forest and Cherokee National Forest in east Tennessee are sending rangers to the flame-swept area, but the number is not great because of the situation that exists in their own district. Natural Bridge National Forest in Virginia, and others farther north and east declined to send aid on the ground that they are having their own troubles.
While all available forces were being thrown into he Grandfather Mountain fire Tuesday night, two other fires broke out when sparks from logging trains ignited the tinder-dry forest floor. One of the blazes burned over 400 acres of government land, while the other swept 200 acres of timber. Both were placed under control by workmen and fire wardens in the district early this morning.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 4, 1926.
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