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A drill tower in Cricklade, England. A drill tower is a tower and training facility for firefighters. It is usually built within a fire station facility for routine exercises and training. [1] The drill tower is typically a multi-level structure simulating high-rise buildings. Heights vary by location.
The St. Regis Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Saint Regis Mountain at Santa Clara in Franklin County, New York.The station and contributing resources include a 35-foot-tall (11 m), steel frame lookout tower erected in 1918, the site of the former observer's cabin, and 9/10 of a mile foot trail between the cabin site and summit.
Narrow towers rising above many fire station buildings are hose towers, for purpose of cleaning and drying fire hoses. [1] [2] But some have fire lookout towers, some have bell towers or clock towers and some have firefighting training towers or "drill towers".
It comprises a steel frame fire lookout tower, the observer's cabin and privy and the jeep road to the complex. Balsam Lake Mountain, the westernmost of the Catskill High Peaks, was the site of the first fire lookout tower in New York in 1887, when a nearby sportsmen's club built it to protect their lands below the mountain.
Austin first established a professional fire department in 1916, creating a need for a drill tower where the firefighters could train. [2] On December 26, 1929, City Council authorized construction of a fire drill tower on a parcel of land along the Colorado River downtown, where the river could provide water for testing fire hoses and extinguishing training fires.
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The main structure is a braced metal-frame fire tower, alongside which stand a residence, privy, and vaulted stone storage cellar. These structures were all built in 1937 by a crew of the Civilian Conservation Corps , and is particularly unusual because the fire watch facility included a residence.
The Mount Adams Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Mount Adams at Newcomb in Essex County, New York.The station and contributing resources include a 56-foot-tall (17 m), steel frame lookout tower erected in 1917, a foot trail leading up the 3,250 foot summit, and the 1922 observers cabin with shed and privy.