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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