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Stock shots. Footage includes: lookout man spotting fires; views from patrol plane checking fire location; aerial views of Lillooet-Pavilion area, Fraser River, Adams Lake; bird-dog plane and Avenger airtankers over fire; scens at Kamloops tanker base (dispatcher at work, air crew playing baseball, then rushing to get aircraft airborne); more shots of tanker over fire.

The item is a reel of documentary film about observing, locating, reaching and fighting small forest fires. Shows the role of the lookout tower, the canoe, the railway gasoline speeder, the portable pump and the airplane (an HS2L flying boat).

The item is a reel of documentary film about detecting and fighting forest fires, including fire fighting procedures and air patrols. A De Havilland DH-4 airplane is used.

The item is a reel of documentary film about a forest fire caused by a careless smoker in northern Idaho. Fire protection and fire fighting by the United States Forest Service.

Stock shots

The item is a reel of educational film showing how forest fires are caused and how they can be prevented.

Documentary. "The dramatic story showing the devastating effect a forest fire has on a suburban area. Detection and suppression of a forest fire caused by human carelessness." (BC Forest Service catalogue, 1972)

Training film. Describes the training and duties of a Forest Service lookout man, and explains the assembly and use of the fire-finder.

Documentary. The sequence of action which takes place in spotting and reporting a forest fire, as seen from the viewpoint of a fire spotter on a mountaintop near the Cowichan Valley.

Documentary. The importance of Canada's forests to the economy. Includes scenes of logging; log drives; huge trees felled by crosscut saw; sawmill and pulp mill operations and the various uses of forest products. Forest fire prevention and forest fire fighting techniques are shown, with shots of a huge forest fire in a mountainous area. No locales are specified, but the footage is clearly shot in BC. In the first sequence, dealing with a prosperous town which becomes a ghost town after a nearby forest fire, Barkerville is the ghost town location.

Documentary. Fighting a forest fire from the air and the ground, and the steps taken by the Forest Service to protect BC's forests from their "most dreaded enemy." The beginning of film clipped.

Out-takes. Fighting a forest fire from the air and the ground, and the steps taken by the Forest Service to protect BC's forests from their "most dreaded enemy."