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Mr. Osborne also designed the photo-recording transit for making panoramic records of forest conditions, as well as a collapsible water-bag knapsack for firefighting (patented in the US in 1935). Many fire finders were manufactured from 1920 through 1935, but the manufacturer, Leupold & Stevens, Inc., stopped production of replacement parts ...
AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar. Hughes AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder weapon locating system is a mobile radar system developed in the mid-late 1970s by Hughes Aircraft Company and manufactured by Northrop Grumman and ThalesRaytheonSystems, achieving initial operational capability in May 1982.
AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder radar. Hughes AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder Weapon Locating System [1] is a mobile radar system developed in the late 1970s by Hughes Aircraft Company, achieving Initial Operational Capability in 1980 and full deployment in 1984.
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 mountain or other high vantage point to maximize viewing distance and range, known as view shed.
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 .
A rangekeeper is defined as an analog fire control system that performed three functions: [2] Target tracking; The rangekeeper continuously computed the current target bearing.
Chavez Gaona set fire to his rental apartment, and sat in a tree with a shotgun. Firemen responded to the call, then called police, who first attempted to negotiate, but then shot him in order to battle the fire. [121] 1994-04-02 Preston Tate (26) California (Corcoran) [22] 1994-02-26 Troy Nelson (67) Texas (Houston) [74] 1994-02-08
Sportspeople from Wichita Falls, Texas (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "People from Wichita Falls, Texas" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total.