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...
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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...
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notable fire lookout towers and stations, including complexes of associated buildings and structures. This includes lookout cabins without towers which...
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The Fifield Fire Lookout Tower is located in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Fifield, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic...
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Mountain Fire Lookout Tower is a fire lookout tower in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. It is the eighth property featured in a program of the...
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After 2021 interviews with Rogers, researchers proposed that a nearby fire lookout tower and its spotlight were used to create the illusion of a flying saucer...
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The Ripley Fire Lookout Tower, on Joe Crihfield Rd. in Ripley, Tennessee, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. It was built...
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Shawangunk Ridge (section Fire lookout towers)
steel fire lookout tower. Due to increased use of aerial detection, the tower ceased fire lookout operation at the end of the 1971 fire lookout season...
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Report for: Abita Lookout Tower". USGS. Retrieved July 25, 2020. "Beauregard Crime Stoppers seeking information in Dry Creek Fire Tower damage". USGS. June...
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Historic Lookout Register, Ramapo Station Fire Tower US 45, NJ 2 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 April 2015. "Bearfort Fire Tower US...
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Beacon Mountain (section Fire tower)
antennas on its summit; the 1,595 feet (486 m) southern summit has a fire lookout tower, which was built in 1931. Beacon Reservoir, the city's main water...
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Rakkestad (section Linnekleppen fire lookout tower)
human fire lookout during summer months, when there is a higher fire risk. First established in 1908, it is the only currently active fire lookout tower in...
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Vetter Mountain (section Fire lookout)
is the site of historic Vetter Mountain fire lookout tower, a ground mounted BC-3 type cab. The lookout tower was built in 1937 and remained in service...
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Schonchin Butte (redirect from Schonchin Butte Fire Lookout)
Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower on Schonchin Butte, a cinder cone in Lava Beds National Monument. The Civilian Conservation Corps built a fire lookout...
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The William Penn Memorial Fire Tower is a fire lookout tower located on Mount Penn in Lower Alsace Township, Pennsylvania. Named after William Penn, the...
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Black Elk Peak (redirect from Harney Peak Lookout Tower, Dam, Pumphouse and Stairway)
been made to determine the true elevation of this peak. The peak's fire lookout tower and the staircase leading to it, as well as a nearby dam and pumphouse...
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The Udell Lookout Tower is a fire lookout tower located on Forest Road 5207 in the Manistee section of the Huron-Manistee National Forests, near Wellston...
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Pennsylvania's annual Groundhog Day celebration. Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout, a fire lookout tower in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, USA. Gobblers...
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Cleveland National Forest (section Fire lookout towers)
operational fire lookout towers in the Cleveland National Forest. High Point Lookout, Cleveland National Forest, Palomar Mountain Los Pinos Lookout, Cleveland...
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Fire Tower is a Fire lookout tower located in the Charles C. Deam Wilderness Area. It is an Aermotors type lookout tower. Construction of the tower began...
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radio/telephone communications, in the U.S. and Australia and elsewhere, fire lookout towers were also sited on mountain tops or other remote locations with wide...
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Series button. "Searchable list of NY Fire Towers". nysffla.org. The New York State Chapter of the Forest Fire Lookout Association. Retrieved November 29...
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(18 m) steel fire lookout tower was built on the mountain. The tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1988 fire lookout season, and was...
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Mount Hawkins Lookout, tower stood on the summit of South Mount Hawkins It was built in 1935. It was one of the only all-wooden towers in Southern California...
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Aermotor Windmill Company (redirect from Aermotor tower)
the American West. The company also manufactured galvanized steel fire lookout towers including a "7 x 7" model which supported a 7-by-7-foot (2.1 m × 2...
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Gloucester Tree (category Fire lookout towers in Australia)
towers open to the public, the other two being the Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree and the Diamond Tree. It is the world's second tallest fire-lookout tree...
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an abandoned metal fire lookout tower (the cab and wooden steps are missing from the tower). There are also multiple radio towers along with transmitter...
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Dakota. It is the 3rd highest point in the Black Hills. There is a fire lookout tower on the summit. Berne quadrangle, South Dakota (Map). 1:24000. 7.5...
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The Moore Lookout Tower is a historic fire lookout tower located on Scott County Road 503 in Forest, Scott County, Mississippi. Built in 1940 by the Civilian...
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The Ute Mountain Fire Tower is a fire lookout tower in the Ashley National Forest in western Daggett County, Utah, United States, southwest of Manila,...
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