“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—not ...
A 73-year-old California woman who worked as a lookout, watching for wildfires from U.S. Forest Service towers in Siskiyou County, died in the McKinney Fire, officials said. Kathy Shoopman's first ...
In California, firefighters have a true range of tools available to alert them of wildfires: live cameras mounted throughout forests, satellites orbiting Earth, pilots scanning the terrain in ...
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