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Today, these 21 towers provide New Jersey an inexpensive and effective first response system that aids the New Jersey Forest Fire Service in quickly suppressing and in preventing damage caused by reported wildfires. The Forest Fire Service estimates that 25 percent of wildfires within the state every year are first spotted by a lookout. [7]
There once were more than 10,000 fire lookout persons [1] staffing more than 5,000 of fire lookout towers or fire lookout stations in the United States alone. [2] Now there are far fewer of both. Also there are a number of fire lookout trees. The U.S. state of Wisconsin decided to close its last 72 operating fire lookout towers in 2016. [3]
Bearfort Mountain, historically known as Bear Ford Mountain, [1] is a mountain ridge extending from Wawayanda State Park northward through Abram S. Hewitt State Forest in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey. [2] It is a continuation of Bellvale Mountain in New York. The Appalachian Trail crosses along the ridge into New York. [3]
Pages in category "Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Cleveland Division of Fire provides fire protection and works with Cleveland EMS to provide emergency medical service to the city of Cleveland, [3] Ohio. [4] The department, which was founded in April 1863, is responsible for 82 square miles (210 km 2 ) with a population of over 390,000 people.
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
Coyle Field (FAA LID: NJ20) is a private-use airport established in 1938 and located five miles southeast of Chatsworth in Burlington County, New Jersey, in the United States. It is owned by and operated as an air attack base by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service in its wildfire suppression and aerial firefighting efforts. Coyle Field is named ...