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Summit Ridge Fire Lookout, 6,082', 67.5' tower, last staffed in 1972. Rankin Ridge Fire Lookout, Wind Cave National Park, replaced the Crow's Nest Peak tower, 5,013'. Mt Coolidge Fire Lookout Custer State Park still in service. Battle Mountain Fire Lookout, Hot Springs, SD, Fall River Co, 4,363', 22' tower.
Beyazıt Tower, an 85-meter-tall (279 ft) fire lookout tower at Beyazıt Square in Istanbul. A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a ...
A fire lookout (sometimes also called a fire watcher) is a person assigned the duty to look for fire from atop a building known as a fire lookout tower. These towers are used in remote areas, normally on mountain tops with high elevation and a good view of the surrounding terrain , to spot smoke caused by a wildfire .
Oregon Butte Lookout . Also located in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness is the Oregon Butte Lookout, a moderate six-mile hike from the Teepee Trailhead, according to the Washington Trail Association ...
A USFS Fire Lookout using an Osborne Firefinder while on duty at Vetter Mountain, California. The device is used by moving the sights until the observer can peek through the nearer sighting hole and view the cross hairs in the further sight aligned with the fire. The fire lookout notes the degrees on the graduated ring beneath the sight.
Fire lookout towers in New York (state) (3 C, 2 P) Fire lookout towers in North Carolina (1 P) O. Fire lookout towers in Oregon (6 P) P.
Mountain Fire Lookout Tower is a fire lookout tower in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. [3] It is the eighth property featured in a program of the National Park Service that began in July, 2008. [4] It is located on Forest Service Rd. 2335 (Tower Rd.), Lakewood Ranger District, Nicolet National Forest, in Riverview, Wisconsin. [1]
It has a 15 by 15 feet (4.6 m × 4.6 m) cab with a log catwalk and railings, upon a 15 feet (4.6 m) stone tower. [2] It is at elevation 7,985 feet (2,434 m) and is staffed and open during the summer. [2] It is one of fewer than 40 operating National Park Service (NPS) fire lookouts in 2019. [3] It was destroyed by the July/August 2021 Dixie ...