As a young boy, Ray Villa vividly remembers seeing a fire lookout tower for the first time on his home television. He didn’t fully understand what he was seeing on his screen at the time — he just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Idaho was once home to nearly 1,000 fire lookouts — great towers that would stand above the trees, offering 360-degree views of ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: June 10, 1905, 113 years ago today – the day America's first forest fire lookout tower went into operation on top of Squaw Mountain in Maine, with ...

Officials from the Moshannon Forest District gather around the alidade, an instrument used to help personnel staffing lookout towers pinpoint the location of wildfires. From left to right, Joe Polaski ...

Metro Parks officials hope that visitors to Scioto Grove Metro Park in Grove City will be able later this year or early 2023 to climb a former fire lookout tower and take in panoramic views of Greater ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colorado — The Devil's Head Fire Lookout Tower will be closed to visitors until repairs are completed. Pike National Forest officials said there will be staff in the tower scanning for ...

A little piece of Picatinny history was brought back to life on September 5. For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Green Pond Mountain Lookout Tower lit up the night sky. Built in 1942 as a fire ...

Don Allen has saved some of the last historic lookout towers in Oregon, but he couldn’t save the one that meant the most to his father. Don Allen III got a text that struck him with dread. “Looks like ...

More than a career ended Tuesday when Bill Ellis retired as fire lookout at the Devil’s Head Lookout Tower northwest of Colorado Springs. It was the end of an era — a way of life — for the 87-year-old ...