Fire Lookout Tower 09
Fire Lookout Tower 09 : Types of Fire Lookout Towers: (1) Wooden towers: Many fire lookout towers are simply cabs that have been fitted to large railroad water tank towers. These huge wooden towers could extend 30 to 60 feet (9 to 20 m). One of the last wooden fire lookout towers in Southern California was the South Mount Hawkins Fire Lookout located in the Angeles National Forest. A civilian effort is underway to rebuild the tower after its tragic loss during the Curve Fire of September 2002. The typical cab of a wooden tower can be from 10 ft * 10 ft (3. 0 m * 3. 0 m) to 14 ft * 14 ft (4. 3 m * 4. 3 m) Example South Mount Hawkins before the fire. (2) Steel towers: Example of a steel tower on Bald Mountain in Butte County, California. Steel towers can vary in size and height. These towers are very sturdy, but tend to sway in the wind a bit more than a wooden tower. The typical cab of a steel tower can be from 10 ft * 10 ft (3. 0 m * 3. 0 m) to 14 ft * 14 ft (4. 3 m * 4. 3 m). Example Keller Peak Lookout. Example Red Mountain Lookout. Example Mount Lofty Fire Tower, South Australia. (3) Aermotors: The Aermotor Company, originally of Chicago IL, was the first and lead manufacturer of steel fire towers from the nineteen-teens to the mid-twenties. These towers have very small cabs, because the towers are based upon Aermotor windmill towers. These towers are often found in the U. S. Midwest or the South, but few have made their way into the mountainous West. In the northeast, all of the towers in the Adirondack Mountains and most in the Catskills were Aermotor towers erected between 1916 and 1921
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