English Translation

18 -4 - that in the late days numerous fires were caused by spark flight of locomotives of the Reichsbahn vcrursach. Thus on the railway lines Petschau-Tupl and Petschau - Theusing sn one day in the forest of the domain Petschau only 11 fires arose. This domain must use all its forest workers and forest personnel as fire guards in order to immediately attack the firefighting operations after passing the trains, in addition to which the fire brigade of Petschau had to be requested on several occasions. The fires of garbage dumps, Gem.inde Habskladrau, Mariánské Lázně County, and the fire in Potscherad, Saaz County, have been attributed to the same cause of fire. In garbage dumps 9 farmsteads, one smaller farm, the municipal shmicde, the community house and 3 small Vohnhouses with the associated virtuous buildings, 10 stables, 6 barns and 12 sheds, were cremated in full. As a result of the rapid spread of the peacock, almost all the inventors and the food betrayals were destroyed by the flames. 16 cattle, 5 pigs, 2 goats and a hcute not yet detected number of Federvich are burned. 3 people found death by suffocation. In Potscherau, a shtune and a cart shed caught fire by flying sparks while shunting a freight train, the strong wind transferred it to a neighboring house covered with straw, a stable and a barn; cle buildings were cremated. It detonated an estimated 120,000 RM. The Reichsbahndirektionen Dresden and Regensburg have already been asked, on the occasion of the previous years' fire disasters, to take prefabrication measures, that such fires can no longer be caused by radio flights, but have taken sufficient measures to prevent these dangers according to this year's experience. The air protection services are active in this field, Men pays more attention than ever to the expansion of air protection rooms, the construction of further independent fire-fighting water systems and the training of the population in air protection. The services of the Reichsluftschutzbund are very active; the Wehrmacht has also proved to be extremely helpful in individual locations. In some locations special auxiliary commandos of the Wehrmacht have been designated in the strength of 1 Untar officer and 5 men, who already in case of air danger occupy established stands within the city area. These auxiliary commando are equipped with ski jumping gear, and can work successfully with salvage of buried persons etc. This solution is likely to be missing for other hazardous districts as a further aid measure in air protection cmp. The same also applies to the locations in which departments of the Reichserbeitsdiunste are located. In this connection, it should be noted that it seems appropriate to use forces of the Reichsarbeitsdienst already for reasons of training in the installation of Srlitterschutzgraben. The population of the Regierungsbezirk is z-Zt. very open for all air protection regulations. It is necessary for all the services to carry out all the measures which have hitherto been lacking in air protection. In particular, it is necessary to ensure that the blackout is carried out, which still gives rise to the submission of evidence. In the past Monrt 43 violations had to be noted in the city of the administrative district alone. After the Flicgerargiiff on Pilscn on the night of 14.5., at which also wellina, Kieis Mics, and Girech, circle Tepl, dropped cinige bonben, besides the already mentioned plug sheet G_28