The fire lookout sits at about 7,700 feet above sea level and seems to be in good condition despite being abandoned since 1955, when the Forest Service last staffed the outpost. Manning leads the ...

In California, firefighters have a true range of tools available to alert them of wildfires: live cameras mounted throughout forests, satellites orbiting Earth, pilots scanning the terrain in ...

“They’ve just taken it on and just really run with it in doing everything they can to support lookouts and saving them and restoring them,” said Gary Weber, the treasurer of the Forest Fire ...

This summer, the nonprofit Siskiyou Mountain Club will work with the U.S. Forest Service to reconstruct the Bolan Mountain Fire Lookout in southern Oregon, a historic cabin that burned to the ...

The Buck Rock Fire Lookout is located at 8,500 feet elevation and has been a vital tool for spotting smoke and battling wildfires in the forest and nearby national parks since 1923.

Amidst the smoke and destruction caused by the Line fire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest, the fall of Keller Peak Fire Lookout has saddened community members and volunteers who were ...

Wildfires are a reality of life in the American West, and in the early to mid-1900s, the Forest Service built a variety of fire lookout towers, situated on the tops of lofty mountain peaks ...

Evacuation and travel alerts have been issued in the Fort Frances and Sioux Lookout districts in northwestern Ontario as ...

Crews with Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES) continue to manage 11 active wildfires in the Northwest Fire ...