Hedges and trees may actually reduce home exposure to radiant heat and flying embers, but they must be well maintained. Two ...

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 ...

For nearly a century, volunteers have manned the lookout tower ... The Southern California Mountains Foundation has confirmed that the tower was destroyed during the Line Fire last week.

Zion Lookout Tower in Amador County put ... command center for it to be confirmed by the Alert California camera system, according to CAL FIRE.

A nearly 90-year-old fire lookout cabin overlooking Lassen National Forest and the Ishi Wilderness — once used as a wartime defense station, then as a rentable vacation getaway — was destroyed ...

The writers Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder and Norman McLean all staffed high-elevation fire lookouts in the West ... we both choose lots of books, and I spend the days scanning the land and ...

September came to California with a searing ... a Sequoia National Forest lookout sighted smoke from the nearby McGee ranch. At 6 p.m., despite fire crews and bulldozers, the McGee fire topped ...

according to the Southern California Mountains Foundation. “It’s a very, very sad day,” San Bernardino Mountains Foundation Fire Lookout manager Shane Harris said in a phone interview ...

I'm looking for smoke in that in the landscape. At their heyday, there were about 8000 fire lookouts in the United States from Maine to California. That was roughly in the 30s and 40s. Nowadays we ...

SAN BERNARDINO NATIONAL FOREST (KABC) -- For nearly a century, volunteers have manned the lookout ... California Mountains Foundation has confirmed that the tower was destroyed during the Line ...