to match the original building materials. Only two years after the labor of love was completed, the icon of fire lookout construction was incinerated in California’s single-largest wildfire to date.

Baptiste participated in that project and a subsequent one, building a new deck for the lookout. John Hearing, a Forest Service volunteer and chair of the Snoqualmie Fire Lookouts Association who ...

Start-ups in Israel and Germany are building satellite-based ... He spoke of the pride he took in supporting fire managers, firefighters and his fellow lookouts, whom he helps train in mapping ...

The Forest Service began building fire-detection towers after the Great Fire of 1910, then added more after the Civilian Conservation Corps and other government agencies considered lookouts ...

There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts like this one deserve a second chance at ...

The Forest Service began building fire-detection towers after the Great Fire of 1910, then added more after the Civilian Conservation Corps and other government agencies considered lookouts — pa ...

TROY, Mont. — Chuck Manning, 79, took careful steps as he circled a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, an aptly named mountaintop a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho ...

A nearly 100-year-old fire lookout tower was destroyed last week as the Line Fire blazed through Southern California. Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC reported that the Keller Peak fire lookout ...

The Washington Forest Fire Lookout Association is looking for volunteers to help spot fires from Mt. Bonaparte this summer.