NOAA satellites paired with AI data analysis also generate alerts but over a wider area. They can detect heat signatures, map ...

That’s the name of a map-based website created by University of Idaho graduate students Michael Decker, Chris Lamb and Jack ...

Most people have never been to one, but they may still find something captivating and romantic about them. That same curiosity applies to firewatchers, the people who spend their summers, largely ...

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 ...

A fire lookout continuously monitors specific areas, usually from an elevated position such as a fire watch tower or a hut.

Residents in the wildfire-ravaged communities of Altadena and Pasadena witnessed flames near the base of a transmission line ...

Part of Cape May Point State Park, the World War II Lookout Tower – officially known as Fire Control Tower No. 23 – was built in 1942 and is New Jersey's last restorable tower from World War II.

Salt River Project, with aid from corporate, government and nonprofit partners, is thinning Arizona forests to prevent ...