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AUBURN LAD IN FRANCE1Tells of Fighting Forest Fires at Night. !Frtvate Chrl A. Budd, an Auburn, Ind.. ■oldicr has written an Interesting letter t» hia parents. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Budd. wlo of Auburn, A part of the letter Ibtlews!•*I wa* out all Thursday night fighting a large forest flre. There were over ? 100 of u* that left the camp In trucks for the fire and we fought tho flames Until 10 o’clock Friday morning before tie; were extinguished. We used shov-ftls, buckets, clubs and also had water tanks with hose on. At one time the wind rose suddenly and tho fire started burning again, and for a short time we were surrounded on three sides by fre.It is needless to say that we lost no lime j in getting' out of that lire when it was ; on three sides of us. We all had our gas | masks along and if the smoke had become too dense we could have put them on.We have ga3 mask drill every day and I broke all records for putting on a gas mask. It takes the average man about 0 or 7 seconds to put on a ^aa mask and the record was 4% seconds but I put on the maek in 3 seconds and broke all records in the 13th Brigade.Every one thinks wc will be home for Christmas dinner. Here’s hoping so any way. Of course 1 want to do my bit but then every one would rather be back in the states.Private Budd also wrote an excellent poem telling of tho time when he would again meet his mother and father.He is a member of Battery C, 136th field artillery, 37th division.
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Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 04, 1918
Page 12
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