Fire Lookout - Notable Fire Lookouts

Notable Fire Lookouts

  • Hallie Morse Daggett - the first female fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service
  • Helen Dowe - Devil's Head Lookout at Pike National Forest (1918)
  • Ramona Merwin and family - Vetter Mountain, raised her family in the lookout
  • Howard "Razz" Gardner and Keith V. Johnson "The Lookout Air Raid" a little known Japanese aircraft attack of Oregon, USA during World War II
  • Roy Sullivan, worked as a fire lookout in his early career as a U.S. National Park Ranger, but was best known for having set a world record for surviving seven lightning strikes during his life.

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