Fire lookouts occupy an uncommon spot in the world. Their function is simultaneously anachronistic and essential. They exist in wildly remote spaces yet are satellites of human infrastructure.

The writers Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder and Norman McLean all staffed high-elevation fire lookouts in the West—their experiences rich fuel for their work. But Jack Kerouac’s reaction makes me smile.

Fire lookouts occupy an uncommon spot in the world. Their function is simultaneously anachronistic and essential. They exist in wildly remote spaces yet are satellites of human infrastructure.

After a quarter-mile or so, the trail wraps around the east side of the mountain, and Sunset Crater comes into view for the first time. The trail reverses itself yet again and heads toward the fire ...

7, said Jim Bentley, commissioner of fire and police for Lookout Mountain, Tn. What happened, he said was that Saturday morning, the Lookout Mountain Fire Department answered a call for a brush ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the newly established U.S. Forest Service built fire lookout towers around the country. The towers were topped by cabins with windows on all four walls and ...

The closure has prevented use of the popular subalpine hiking trail leading to the old fire lookout on Idaho Peak. In the years since the closure, the Ministry has conducted ground truthing and ...

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods this week, killing at least 11 people and ...

Southside Boulevard Thursday at approximately 6:25 p.m. Firefighters saw fire on the second floor of the home and utilized an aggressive interior fire attack to stop the blaze.

Ramirez, 54, unexpectedly died while on duty Saturday night. He had served with Central Fire for 24 years. (Ramirez’s oldest daughter, Brittany, is Lookout’s lead marketing and sales coordinator.) ...

Lookout compiled a variety of ways locals can support the thousands of displaced Southern Californians, along with animals, firefighters and other emergency personnel. As devastating wildfires ...