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Pioneer Press
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia
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Destructive forest fires, the most severe in Virginia's valley history, are sweeping through thousands of acres of timber in the Massanutten mountains. The US forest reservation seeks volunteers as citizens from Page and Shenandoah counties fight the 25-mile blaze for 25 hours, occasionally crossing into Shenandoah and Warren counties.
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LURAY, Va. - The United States forest reservation has been calling for volunteers to assist in saving its thousands of acres of timber land in the Massanutten mountains, over which the most destructive fires in the history of the valley of Virginia are sweeping. For 25 hours hundreds of citizens of Page and Shenandoah counties have been fighting these fires which stretch in a direct line for 25 miles through the eastern side of the Massanutten mountains at times crossing into Shenandoah and Warren counties.
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Massanutten Mountains, Virginia
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The United States forest reservation calls for volunteers to save thousands of acres of timber land in the Massanutten mountains from the most destructive fires in the history of the valley of Virginia. Hundreds of citizens from Page and Shenandoah counties have fought these fires for 25 hours; the fires stretch in a direct line for 25 miles through the eastern side of the Massanutten mountains, at times crossing into Shenandoah and Warren counties.