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Early activities in the United States to combat forest fires. Circa 1910 scenes of lookout stations. Osborne fire finder

Scenes of early Forest Ranger activities to fight forest fires. A circa 1910 photo of Fire Warden standing on observation post at top of extremely tall tree. A flag flies at the observation post. A tree House observation post on the top of a tall bare tree. A "wooden skyscraper"lookout tower. A fire warden and his family pose in front of their house at the base of a lookout tower in Arkansas. Lookout house built on a high peak in Willamette National Forest, Oregon. A tall steel tower lookout in the Suwanee forest, Georgia. A Ranger at an early lookout point, equipped only with a map and compass. Fire warden sights through a W.B. Osborne's fire finder and makes a telephone call. Observations from two ranger stations being plotted on a map and the intersecting lines give the exact location of area under fire.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058685
Early means of communication used in case of a forest fire in United States.

Early developments in North American forest fire detection and communication Various methods of communication used to send information during a forest fire. Smoke rises from forest and a Ranger, carrying a spade, climbs a hill in the area. Circa 1920 picture of a man with a carrier pigeon used to send information in case of forest fire. Rangers with shovels working around smoking underbrush. Another man with a hand mirror for reflecting the suns rays and sending a signal to others. A man speaks over a telephone. Man in a room as he speaks over a wireless handset.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058686
U.S. Army aircraft patrol for forest fires, in 1919, in the United States. Bulldozers and forest plows introduced in 1932

World War I scenes of U.S. Army airplanes in action at the front. A picture of U.S. Army Major Henry A. (Hap) Arnold and California Forester Kurt Dubois, who, together, started the fire patrol practice by United States Army aircraft in1919. Army flyers lined up on a field. Army Curtis JN-4 (Jenny) airplanes in flight as smoke rises from the forests below. Weighted messages with ribbons attached, being dropped by pilots while in flight to inform about a forest fire. Later on after the installation of radios a pilot sends a message on a radio set in case of a forest fire. In 1920s, Crawler tractors used to skid logs out of the forest. In 1925, tractor with a blade was developed and used to build forest roads. In 1932, a Bulldozer being used to create firebreaks during a Southern California fire. A fire plow in operation.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058687
FDR announces formation of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and many work in Forest Service improving fire control

Crews of American young men loading up and organizing for training in fire fighting duties, circa 1920. Unemployed workers in lines and waiting queues in 1933 during Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the formation of Civilian Conservation Corps. Civilian Conservation Corps men of the forest service, at work, setting up telephone poles, stringing wire, building roads, building fire lookout towers, and helping to fight fires.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058688
Firefighters parachute into forests from Ford trimotor airplane. Parachute training in Missoula, Montana

Aerial view of a lookout tower in a forest in United States . A Ford trimotor airplane takes off on a grass field. The airplane in flight and dropping supplies to firefighters, by parachute. Scenes of 1939 experimental tests with firefighters parachuting from a Ford trimotor, near Winthrop, Washington. They can be seen leaving the aircraft, chutes opening, and firefighters descending. Scenes from first operational use of parachuting firefighters, on July 12, 1940, when Smoke Jumpers, Rufus Johnson and Earl Cooley parachuted into the Nez Perce forest , in Idaho, where they successfully extinguished a small fire. Rufus Johnson was the first to jump from the airplane, followed immediately by Earl Cooley. Fire fighters being trained at a parachute training center in Missoula, Montana. Men learn to jump and run over wooden planks. An instructor gives directions to trainees on a loudspeaker. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058690
Various means of bringing water to fight forest fires. Back packs, pumping from streams, truck mounted pumps, and airplanes

Fire fighters using backpack manual pumps to fight forest fire in United States. Water being pumped by gasoline driven pump, from a stream. Water tanks mounted on trucks for use in fighting forest fires. Aerial view looking down on a Douglas O-2 aircraft in flight over forest. 1930s experiments in using aircraft to deliver water to fight a fire. A man carries a 10 gallon water bomb and another one fixes it below the wing of an aircraft.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058691
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