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o Two Conflagrations Keep Fighters Alert During Heavy Winds Brush Blaze and Tourist Court Create Most Excitement, Property Damage Report States Six fire alarms over the week end kept the Las Vegas central and sub-station fire departments busy as some of1 the blazes occurred Simultaneously. Damage was slight withj but one exception. In one of the conflagrations, the neigh-j borhood was considerably benefited as flames swept across! a large area of trash and brush. Residents were reluctant to watch firemen pour on water before a further clean-up could be accomplished. Early this morning a blaze' started in One unit of Cozy Rest Auto court, 715 South Fifth street, which resulted in consid­erable loss to the motel. Accord­ing to the fire department report, Harry Bates, occupant of the unit, had been smoking in bed, and a spark dropped to the bed clothing from his cigarette. It was necessary to string 450 feet of 2% inch hose and 300 feet of 114 inch hose to extinguish the blaze in the cottage and pro­tect the rest of the court. Fire­men were out from 1:55 to 3:40 a. m. A spectacular fire occured Sunday afternoon, in the creek between Biltmore and Tiffandale housing tracts for a needed cleaning of dead brush, trash and weeds accumulated there. Be­lieved to have started from youngsters playing in the creek bed, the flames were fanned by a light wind, arid quickly 'spread over a comparatively large area. Start of the fire was in the lower end of the wash, but by evening had backed up to the lower end of, the 700 block of Biltmore drive. During the more than three hours it was in prog­ress, residents of the section were lined along the banks, pre­pared to protect their own prop­erty with garden hoses, but en­thusiastically admiring the clean up job going on through the rub­bish littered wash, and expres­sed disappointment when, fire­men poured on streams of water to drench the flames. Crews of the central and sub-station de­partments were on watch from 3:19 to 6:55 p. m. Other fires over the week-end ,ware a brush blaze at 500'South Eleventh street Saturday night; ! overheated flue in a Westside cabin Sunday morning; garbage can fire which spread to a stack of crates and a fence back of a grocery store on South Fifth street, Sunday afternoon, and a cigarette dropped in a trash can in front of the Pioneer club Sun­day night.