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The Snowy Mountain Fire Observation Station is a 45 feet (14 m) steel-frame fire lookout tower on Snowy Mountain at Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. [2] It was built in 1917 as a 22 feet (6.7 m) prefabricated LS40 tower made by the Aermotor Windmill Company. Following the growth of surrounding trees, four more flights of ...
In April, a farmer in Lake Placid lost control of a fallow fire. [2]: 7 The fire was fueled by a 72-day-long drought, scarce rainfall, dried leaves, and vegetation.[5] [6] Other factors that aided the spread of the fire included 8 inches less snowfall than the ten-year-average, and rainfall after April 17 was 0.2 inches, the least ever recorded. [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Fire lookout towers in Adirondack Park" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total ...
Azure Mountain is a 2,323-foot-tall (708 m) mountain near Blue Mountain Road in the Adirondack Park town of Waverly in Franklin County, New York.Azure Mountain is the site of the Azure Mountain Fire Observation Station, a 35-foot-tall (11 m) steel tower that was built in 1918 and later restored in 2002.
Bear Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, Pennington Co SD still in service 7166' original tower was built in 1910 of logs, replaced with 30' metal tower in 1939 Custer Peak Fire Lookout, Lawrence Co SD, 6713' original wooden tower built in 1911, replaced in 1935 and replaced with the current rock lookout tower in 1941
The first structure built on Swede Mountain was a wooden tower erected by the Conservation Commission in 1912. In 1918, the wood tower was replaced with a 47-foot-tall (14 m) Aermotor LS40 tower. [2] Approaching the Swede Mountain tower. The fire tower was decommissioned for fire watch purposes by New York State in 1968.
The oldest erected by the Forest Fire Service that is in continuing operation is Culvers Station (then called the Normanook Fire Tower), first used in 1908, along the ridge of Kittatinny Mountain near Culver's Lake and the Culver's Gap. [a] Many of the state's fire towers were built during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps ...
The Hadley Mountain Fire Observation Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2001 for its role as a Fire lookout tower with the New York State Forest Preserve. [2] Hadley Mountain is the highest of the three peaks that form the West Mountain ridge.