Nationwide, including lookouts run by other federal, state and local agencies, perhaps 300 are in service, according to Gary Weber, treasurer of the Forest Fire Lookout Association, a preservation ...

Evacuation orders have been issued for Goshawk Road and Moose Nugget Road as the Seven Mile Lookout Fire grows, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry (DOF).

The fire lookout sits at about 7,700 feet above sea level and seems to be in good condition despite being ... “There will always be people with a passion for lookouts,” Manning ...

Fire lookouts are an asset to the National Forest. Lookouts, traditionally are people who seek solitude. A lot of lookouts are past wildland firefighters. Many are artists.

For this fire lookout, home is a cabin 20 feet off the ground. Brig Malessa spends fire season living in the tower and travels the rest of the year. ... and I’d love to be one of those people. ...

FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth Fire Department says it is responding to a two-alarm fire at Hulen Mall Friday evening.

RELATED: A fire lookout on what's lost in a transition to technology. Kerouac took Snyder’s advice and landed a lookout job at Desolation Peak the very next summer in 1956.This was one year ...

MT. LOOKOUT, Ohio (WKRC) - Crews battled a large house fire in Mt. Lookout Saturday morning. Firefighters were called to the scene on Windisch Avenue near Hayward Avenue around 9 a.m.

UPDATE (Sunday 3 p.m.): A brush fire on Lookout Mountain is still smoldering, but it is 100% contained, according to the National Park Service. Smoke could still be seen coming from the mountain ...

Historic Fire Lookout Towers Are Burning Down in Today’s Megafires One of the country’s oldest fire lookouts was destroyed last year in the largest wildfire in California’s history.

House and Cooter are the people behind Idaho Fire Lookouts, a project dedicated to keeping alive the legacy of the state’s once vast network of firespotters.

A fire crew in a deep canyon might not be able to hale their dispatch center but still be in reach of a nearby lookout tower. At the same time, people in the lookout towers can provide on-the ...