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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
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....