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Archive Home > 2005 > August > 29 > Fire lookouts scan forest from above

Fire lookouts scan forest from above

By Sunny Lockwood / The Bulletin
August 29, 2005

During the long, hot days of fire season - when the sun shrivels plants, melts asphalt and roasts soil to dust - a handful of employees across the West spend their time in towers high above the trees watching for the first signs of wildfire.

Trained lookouts scan mountain ridges, river canyons....

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