Sentence examples for fire spotter from inspiring English sources
It was written by Don Lancaster, an aerospace engineer and fire spotter in Arizona who was also a prolific author of do-it-yourself articles for electronics hobbyists.
When not sailing on Lake Coeur d'Alene, the young man worked for several summers as a fire spotter for the United States Forest Service.
Then he moved to the Everglades, on the Gulf Coast, where his wife, Elsbeth, took a job as a fire spotter in a lookout tower and Latham worked as a stone-crab fisherman.
Ray Stevens, Mike's father, was a Korean War veteran working as a fire spotter in a Bureau of Indian Affairs plane when he noticed the spraying program on his flights, and began to ask his superiors and tribal officials about it.
It would be absurd to require an EIS on every decision on the management of federal land, such as fluctuation in the number of forest fire spotters". Id., at 124, 581 F.2d, at 902.
1 Fire Spotters at Work Lookout towers are returning to favor as a firefighting tool as suburban-style homes are built ever deeper into the country's forests. 1 Medicaid Suits Allowed In a victory for patients, two courts have ruled that poor people may sue state officials to compel them to provide Medicaid benefits.
The corner tower is a reference to the towers where fire-spotters were stationed before the invention of the telephone and electric fire alarms.
After a rocket was fired, a spotter confirmed the hit, reporting that it had landed, for example, "30 yards from the restaurant". They then calculated the precise distance on Google Earth and used the compass, along with angle and distance tables, to make adjustments.
It is the Air Attack plane, or the spotter/lead plane that flies over the fire to watch its progress, map it, and relay the information to firefighters on the ground.
Based on reports from tornado spotters, the fire chief, Larry McMillen, said one tornado took a northerly route, while the second moved southeast through downtown.
