FLORIDA LOOKOUTS
LONG PINE KEY
Miami-Dade County
Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park
July 14, 1950: "The site is cleared for immediate erection of an 85-foot fire tower at Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park, reports Superintendent Dan Beard. The tower has been delivered to the site, and the bids of private companies for its erection will be opened next week.
The tower will be in operation next season to help prevent disastrous fires such as the one that ravaged that section this spring, Beard says. The tower will afford protection to the Long Pine Key, Paradise Key and east section of the park, and its 'seeing area' will interlock with the the state fire tower at Princeton. By taking a 'fix' from both towers, fires can be pinpointed immediately to furnish protection to farm and grovelands, the superintendent points out.
If funds are available, a 60-foot tower will be erected this summer at the end of the Humble Oil well road seven miles south of Tamiami Trail.
A secondary 48-foot tower will be erected by park personnel at Little Banana Patch at the headwaters of Shark River, Beard says. The structure will double as a radio tower." (The Homestead Leader-Enterprise)
The tower will be in operation next season to help prevent disastrous fires such as the one that ravaged that section this spring, Beard says. The tower will afford protection to the Long Pine Key, Paradise Key and east section of the park, and its 'seeing area' will interlock with the the state fire tower at Princeton. By taking a 'fix' from both towers, fires can be pinpointed immediately to furnish protection to farm and grovelands, the superintendent points out.
If funds are available, a 60-foot tower will be erected this summer at the end of the Humble Oil well road seven miles south of Tamiami Trail.
A secondary 48-foot tower will be erected by park personnel at Little Banana Patch at the headwaters of Shark River, Beard says. The structure will double as a radio tower." (The Homestead Leader-Enterprise)