A tower, often at a high elevation, that especially in former years was staffed by a lookout for the detection of fires occurring over a wide area.
a traditional wooden fire tower
Example sentencesExamples
- I worked in a fire tower for years.
- The fire tower sits atop what is variously known as the Second Dome or the Fire Dome.
- She spent four summers working on fire towers in western Idaho and eastern Oregon.
- I climb an old fire tower in the middle of the refuge.
- In December last year the pair tackled a man who had scaled the 80-foot fire tower at the training centre.
- I realize that one person sitting in the fire tower could have done a better job than all of us could have done on Mt Pleasant.
- It was Joburg's first formal fire station and it is the only remaining fire tower in the city.
- The basin is relatively insecure and offers little in the way of conventional safety equipment such as fire towers.
- While I waited I realized that I hadn't taken a good look at him since having driven past a condemned barn and fire tower.
- They had no means of communication except on the top of the fire tower.