LAKEWOOD
New Jersey - Ocean County
May 2, 1948: "At 5 o'clock, Fireman Hulseart was summed to Ocean avenue by the operator of the local state forest fire service lookout tower on Massachusetts avenue. Investigation disclosed a resident was burning off a field of brush." (Asbury Park Press)
December 7, 1950: "George Emil Bayer, 60, of Lakewood died Monday at the Paul Kimball hospital a few hours after he was admitted. He had been in poor health for some time.
Born in Rocky Hill, he was a veteran of World War I, and was employed as a state fire observer at the Lakewood Fire Tower. He was a member of the Ocean County Civil Service Council No. 12." (The Freehold Transcript and the Monmouth Inquirer)
April 30, 1953: "The fire tower on Massachusetts avenue was a busy place Saturday during the blaze which cut a two-mile path through more than 1000 acres in Lakewood pineland.
From his 80-foot perch Howard Emmons of Farmingdale, tower man, sounded the alarm about two o'clock in the afternoon when the first flames broke out along the Whitesville road about one half mile north of Route 70. The fire continued unchecked and fanned by 30 to 35 mile gusts until it finally halted at Central avenue in Lakewood." (The Freehold Transcript and the Monmouth Inquirer)