CONNECTICUT LOOKOUTS
PINE ROCK
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April 3, 1926: "Prominent men from several cities, including Warden Harris Whittemore, Jr., of Naugatuck, are expected to attend a meeting to be held in the Beacon Falls town hall on Monday night for the formation of a Fire Protective association. The object of the association is to prevent destruction of timberland in the woodland blazes that sweep over this section each summer and fall, during the dry season.
It is planned to have a fire lookout station erected on the topmost knoll of Pine Rock, from where a view is commanded of the entire region for miles around. From this lofty station a man can observe smoke and thus notify the Fire Protection members so that the blaze may be checked before it gets a very large start. It is intended to have a man on the lookout at all times during the dry seasons. There will be a telephone at the station that the observer may promptly get word down to the center in case a woodland blaze is discovered." (Naugatuck Daily News)
It is planned to have a fire lookout station erected on the topmost knoll of Pine Rock, from where a view is commanded of the entire region for miles around. From this lofty station a man can observe smoke and thus notify the Fire Protection members so that the blaze may be checked before it gets a very large start. It is intended to have a man on the lookout at all times during the dry seasons. There will be a telephone at the station that the observer may promptly get word down to the center in case a woodland blaze is discovered." (Naugatuck Daily News)