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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 329

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IRPLANE PATROL [July near cities, where fuel and supplies can be easilysecured. The planes, in consequence, have to goa number of miles before they reach the forests intheir daily trips. The usual procedure for a planebearing a pilot and an observer is to start out atnine oclock in the morning and… … NEAR VIEW OF CINDER CONE the afternoon. Records show that most forestfires start between eleven oclock in the morningand three oclock in the afternoon, so the fliersendeavor to keep in the air as much as possibleduring these hours. In southern California, the patrol routes are soarranged that the…

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