A century ago in the summer of 1924, Berkeley had completed a fire watchtower on Grizzly Peak, and it was announced on Aug. 1 that year that the tower had a telephone courtesy of Pacific Telephone and ...

Across Australia’s bushfire-prone landscapes, a quiet technological shift is taking place atop some of the nation’s most iconic structures: fire lookout towers. Once dependent on human observers ...

The restoration of the Harlem Fire Watchtower in North Manhattan, which took two years to complete, required new cross bracing. Images: Courtesy of Thornton Tomasetti In the 1800s, firefighters in New ...

KCRW Reports Line Fire destroys historic lookout tower in SoCal. Can they rebuild? The Line Fire has scorched The Keller Peak Fire Lookout Tower, which has been around for nearly 100 years, making it ...

The 47-foot-tall, cast-iron structure in Marcus Garvey Park was the last of its kind in the city. At their peak in the early 1870s, 11 watchtowers served New York City. Men used them to scan the ...