President Nixon's daughter, Patricia, greets members of crowd welcoming the Nixons at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, on the occasion of the Apollo-12 moon mission launch. Secret Service agent holds large black and red golf umbrella over Patricia Nixon. President Nixon shakes hands with people and gives autographs. Mrs. Nixon also greets persons in the crowd. Photographers take photos. Nixon chats with a man among the crowd. First Lady Pat Nixon along with President. The Presidential party makes its way through the crowd.
Views from bus carrying Nixon Presidential party along road to Cape Kennedy Space Center, where they will witness launch of the Apollo 12 moon mission.
President Nixon addresses NASA engineers and technicians in the Launch Control Firing Room at Cape Kennedy Space Center, after the Apollo 12 moon mission is launched. Badges of various scientists. Interiors of the control room with monitoring screens everywhere. The NASA personnel are at their control stations. Some wear headsets.
Florida game wardens run down deer stranded in the Everglades by high water. The wardens in speeding airboats across the wetlands. A helicopter for assistance in flight overhead. The wardens bull dog panicked deer trying to escape. The deer are wrapped in sacks to protect them from their own panic. The wardens load the deer aboard the airboats and bring them to safety on high ground.
Discussion of the Tillamook Forest Fire of 1933 in Oregon. Men cutting huge fallen tree with two-man saw. A man works on a Steam Donkey, dragging cut logs. The end of a log in flames. Lumberjacks try to put out the fire. A ranger spots smoke rising from the forest. A phone call being made and organized firefighting crews including the Civilian Conservation Corps respond to fight fire. CCC men cross a log bridge and climb steep hill into the forest. Other responders seen in mule trains. Forester atop a burned out telephone pole, where wire had been destroyed. Firefighters using wireless radios. Smoke rises from the forests. Smoke rises from the hill. Suddenly, wind changes and fire explodes. Views of the actual Tillamook Forest fire storm of August 1933. Two weeks later, rain suppresses the fire. View of firefighters using shovels, axes and other tools to dig fire line by hand, next to smoking underbrush. View of man holding a "Pulaski" tool, half axe and half hoe. Men looking over the aftermath of the Tillamook burn. Lumberjacks chopping a huge standing tree with axes. Cut logs suspended from cables, being moved. Forester with backpack, hiking along trail. Firefighters suppressing small wild fires with hand tools. (Great Depression period)
"Operation Firestop" at Camp Pendleton, California. A helicopter lands and personnel board the helicopter. Helicopter in flight. Helicopter hovers near fire truck as pilot picks up an end of a hose and unreels it, laying it out over a hillside. Accordian-folded cotton hose uncoiled from a tray below a helicopter, as firefighter holds the hose. Fire retarding chemicals being tested by rotating treated materials through flames, in a laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Field testing by spraying fire retardants on a grass field at Camp Pendleton, and then observing their efficacy when the field is set afire. Large group of firefighters on hill, participating in "Operation Firestop," watch a helicopter flying below them during tests. A truck laden with bags of chemicals, makes its way up a hill through brush.
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