Most people have never been to one, but they may still find something captivating and romantic about them. That same curiosity applies to firewatchers, the people who spend their summers, largely ...

Fire lookouts occupy an uncommon spot in the world. Their function is simultaneously anachronistic and essential. They exist ...

Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human ...

That hasn’t changed, but other ways fires are spotted have evolved. In the early part of the 20th century, the newly ...

Many towers have been removed or have been converted to rental cabins. Others still exist but sit empty. Though the footprint of the fire lookout system has atrophied, Decker said they remain an ...

Part of Cape May Point State Park, the World War II Lookout Tower – officially known as Fire Control Tower No. 23 – was built in 1942 and is New Jersey's last restorable tower from World War II.

The trail reverses itself yet again and heads toward the fire lookout tower and the final ascent to the top of a ridge. There you reach the junction with the Sunset Trail, which comes in from the ...

The battery fire at Moss Landing requires a complete, independent investigation, writes state Sen. John Laird, and the public deserves to know how the fire started, how future fires can be prevented ...

Salt River Project, with aid from corporate, government and nonprofit partners, is thinning Arizona forests to prevent wildfires and save water.

“Then I realized it was a fire, and there was at this point, just a small ring of flames around the base of one of the [electrical] towers.” Winds were whipping at about 70 mph, the Palisades ...