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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 .
The Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower in the extreme western region of Mount Rainier National Park at an elevation of 5,485 feet (1,672 m). [2] One of four fire lookouts remaining in the park, the lookout is used for visitor services during summer weekends.
This includes lookout cabins without towers which are perched high and do not require further elevation to serve for their purpose, and also includes notable lookout trees. 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 ]
Fears, twice the SEC freshman of the week this season, shot 7 of 11 to eclipse his average of 18 points per game. The loss was the 12th straight for Prairie View (1-12), with its only win this ...
A sign reading: 'I AM AN AMERICAN', on the Wanto Co grocery store at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 8th December 1941.
The ten photos below are the result of many conversations in which we weighed the images from this year that made us feel the most—and question the most. These are the images we always came back to.
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The Wofford Lookout Complex consists of an 80-foot-tall (24 m) [2] fire lookout tower and associated buildings in Lincoln National Forest in Otero County, New Mexico.. Wofford Lookout Complex was built in 1933 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 1988, as part of a thematic group of United States Forest Service fire lookouts in the forest service's Southwestern ...