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Today, these 21 towers provide New Jersey an inexpensive and effective first response system that aids the New Jersey Forest Fire Service in quickly suppressing and in preventing damage caused by reported wildfires. The Forest Fire Service estimates that 25 percent of wildfires within the state every year are first spotted by a lookout. [7]
List of New Jersey Forest Fire Service fire towers This page was last edited on 10 July 2019, at 09:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a mountain or other high vantage point to maximize viewing distance and range, known as view shed .
As of Wednesday morning, the most recent update from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service says that the fire has burned 2,283 acres in New Jersey, about 3,500 overall, and is 30% contained.
The New Jersey Forest Fire Service detected a potential fire from their Greystone Lookout Tower in Denville just before 10 a.m. The Forest Service responded, along with the Madison Fire Department ...
— New Jersey Forest Fire Service (@njdepforestfire) November 10, 2024. All lanes have reopened on I-287, but Cannonball Road at DuPont Place remains closed.
At an elevation of 1,331 feet (406 m) the ridge is the site of a 68 feet (21 m) high fire lookout tower built by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. [5] [6] The mountain was depicted in an 1850 painting by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. [7]
In New Jersey, 1,500 wildfires damage or destroy 7,000 acres of forests annually, according to the state's forest fire service. State officials say that while the high season is in the spring ...