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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 27 > A job with a view

A job with a view

Fire lookouts spend a solitary summer searching for smoke

By Lily Raff / The Bulletin
July 27, 2008

Jim Shotwell catches some sun and takes regular hikes, but don’t think that his summer is anything like your own. He spends eight hours a day looking out the windows of a 20-foot tower. And he sometimes goes a week without seeing another person.

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