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• Fire lookout tower — A fire lookout tower, fire tower or lookout tower, provides housing and protection for a person known as a fire lookout whose duty it is to search for fire in the wilderness. The fire lookout tower is a small building usually located on the… …   Wikipedia

• Mountain Fire Lookout Tower — Mountain Fire Lookout Station U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

• Fire control tower — A Fire control tower is a military structure used along the American coast during World War II as an observation post to detect enemy vessels offshore and direct the fire from nearby coastal batteries. Some of these were constructed for this… …   Wikipedia

• Fire lookout — A fire lookout is a person assigned the duty to look for fire from atop a building known as a fire lookout tower. These towers are used in remote areas, normally on mountain tops with high elevation and a good view of the surrounding terrain, to… …   Wikipedia

• Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association — The Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association ( ANFFLA ) is a non profit 501(c)(3) organization of citizen volunteers dedicated to the preservation, restoration and operation of the fire lookout towers in the Angeles National Forest, Los… …   Wikipedia

• fire lookout — noun : a lookout stationed in a fire tower who keeps watch over a large area of forest and on sighting a fire notifies a dispatcher of its location called also towerman …   Useful english dictionary

• Lookout (disambiguation) — Lookout may refer to one of the following. *Lookout or look out, a person on a ship in charge of the observation of the sea for hazards, other ships, land, etc. *Lookout (aviation), the act of a pilot scanning the field of view for other aircraft …   Wikipedia

• Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Tower — Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Station U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

• Fire hydrant — in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA A fire hydrant (also known colloquially as a fire plug in the United States or as a johnny pump in New York City, because the firemen of the late 19th century were called Johnnies[ …   Wikipedia

• Lookout Air Raid — The Lookout Air Raid of 1942 was a minor, but historic World War II event that occurred in mountains and forests of Oregon on September 9, 1942. A Japanese submarine, known as I 25, launched a Glen Yokosuka E14Y floatplane and dropped two… …   Wikipedia

• Fire marshal — A no smoking sign at a gas station by order of the state fire marshal. The fire marshal is often charged with enforcing fire related laws. For the same job role in the UK, see Fire Safety Inspector. A fire marshal, in the United States and Canada …   Wikipedia