This year marks Brig Malessa’s fourth season as a fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service. For her, the living situation is a big part of the job’s appeal. “It’s the closest you can get ...

The Forest Fire Lookout Association posted on Facebook that the McCarthy lookout point in Lassen National Forest was destroyed during the Park Fire. The McCarthy Point was built in 1936 and served ...

“Nobody thought Harkness would go,” Ash Phillips told me plainly. The Mount Harkness Fire Lookout tower was, after all, built atop a sparsely vegetated peak of an ancient cinder cone volcano ...

Flames of the Horseshoe 2 Fire consumed the Barfoot Lookout - perched at about 8,800 feet in the Chiricahua Mountains southeast of Willcox - as the fire expanded last Thursday. The fire has now ...

A nearly 100-year-old fire lookout tower was destroyed last week as the Line Fire blazed through Southern California. Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC reported that the Keller Peak fire lookout ...

The fire lookout sits at about 7,700 feet above sea level and seems to be in good condition despite being abandoned since 1955, when the Forest Service last staffed the outpost. Manning leads the ...

I couldn’t disagree more. My wife Linda and I have worked for the last seven years at Benchmark Lookout on the San Juan National Forest, a fire tower in the southwest corner of Colorado, and we love ...