County Fire Wardens Meet in Tewksbury
Chief Orville O. Ordway. of the Heading. Mass.. Fire Department. presided at the first fall meeting of the Middlesex County. Mass., Forest Fire Wardens' Association which was held on the evening of October 25 in the Town Hall in Tewksbury. Prior to the opening of the business session there was a turkey dinner, a vaudeville entertainment and then two reels of motion pictures were shown.
Announcement was made that the November meeting will be held in North Reading and the December meeting in Burlington. The speakers were Maxwell C. Hutchins, State Fire Warden, who said Massachusetts this year had about 900 wood fires most of which occurred in the early spring and were not extensive: Samuel A. York, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Conservation, who told of the work being done to provide recreational areas in the state forests: Mr. Young. Assistant State Forester, who reported that there had been 375 forest fires in New Hampshire so far this year: and Chief Allen. Brookline, Mass., who spoke in a humorous vein of incidents at the recent Milwaukee convention.
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