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The Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association ("ANFFLA") is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of citizen volunteers dedicated to the preservation, restoration and operation of the fire lookout towers in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, and other Southern California areas. The organization works in partnership with the ...
Elk Mountain Fire Tower, Hells Canyon District, Black Hills South Dakota-measured as the tallest fire tower in the country-80+feet tall 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
Mount Dana is a mountain in the U.S. state of California. Its summit marks the eastern boundary of Yosemite National Park and the western boundary of the Ansel Adams Wilderness . At an elevation of 13,061 feet (3,981 m), it is the second highest mountain in Yosemite (after Mount Lyell ), and the northernmost summit in the Sierra Nevada which is ...
The latest Los Angeles County wildfire, dubbed the Hughes Fire, began as a brush fire Wednesday a little before 11 a.m. before spreading to over 8,000 acres by around 4 p.m. local time.
The new fire has emerged as firefighters are continuing to battle several other blazes around the region, including the nearly 20,000-acre Palisades fire and the Eaton fire in Altadena, which has ...
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
A vehicle drives by as smoke and flames rise in the back while firefighters battle the Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake, north of Santa Clarita, California on Jan. 22, 2025.
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 .