How to Use fire tower in a Sentence

fire tower

noun
  • Don’t be surprised to see a few cows at the top near the fire tower in the warmer months.
    — Katie Linsky Shaw, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
  • To visit the fire tower, follow the road a half-mile beyond the gate.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2020
  • Firefighters peered into the stormy night from fire towers to make sure no fires were afoot.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The state’s highest point, Timm’s Hill, still has its fire tower.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The park also has an old fire tower available for tours as well as gemstone mining.
    — Staff, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • Our reward was to find the fire tower atop the summit open to visitors and staffed by a ranger.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • That was quite a change for mom, moving from Portland to this fire tower about 60 feet up.
    — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The bridle trails south of the rappelling area and the fire tower parking area will remain closed for the time being.
    — Steve Stephens, The Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati.com, 26 May 2020
  • The first time, a rainstorm pelted me while atop an open-air fire tower, soaking my stuff during a cold Vermont night.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 July 2021
  • The plan is to cover about six miles a day for three days, with time carved out on Monday to hike up to a fire tower and hang out there to view the eclipse.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 7 Apr. 2024
  • This is the only fire tower in Wisconsin that is open to the general public for climbing.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
  • One of her students conquered his fear of heights by climbing up the MacKenzie fire tower, Wohlgefardt said.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2018
  • Don’t miss the trek up to the top of 908-foot South Mountain for sweeping fall foliage views from the summit fire tower.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The fire tower is the only one in the state used for a college fire-tech program between Santa Rosa and Monterey.
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Jay said the car club is planning to visit the Boucher Hill fire tower on Palomar Mountain next month.
    — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2019
  • One of the best, most solitary views in the park is from the High Rocks, where an old warder’s cabin sits beside a gray bluff that once supported a fire tower.
    — Neil Norman, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2019
  • At the top, climb the fire tower and soak in the 360-degree view of the wilderness—one almost unchanged from the time of the Great Camps.
    — Liz Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2023
  • For these landscape pictures, in particular, photographers had to lug all of their equipment, chemistry and glass plates with them, up fire towers, down city streets, to the wharfs.
    — Chris Granger, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • And Lanman mentioned that a Buffalo Lookout fire tower had existed in the area.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
  • One of Convective’s investments, Pano, has disrupted the old-fashioned fire tower.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Finding love atop the tower Not long into the new millennium, Jordan was impressed by one visitor to the fire tower.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The rocky summit is partially protected by scrubby evergreens and a fire tower affords fantastic views of all of western Maine.
    — Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
  • With the sheriff in tow, the pair of assassins then make their way out to Hannah's lofty fire tower, where the film mercifully blazes to an entirely predictable sort of climax.
    — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
  • Visitors can also climb the fire tower and check out the Statehouse Quarry, which provided the limestone to build the Indianapolis capitol.
    — Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2019
  • Owen is murdered by the assassins, and during his a frantic quest to survive, Connor crosses paths with a Montana smoke jumper, Hannah (Jolie), living in a fire tower.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • Or a fire tower that sits above treeline in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest and offers 360-degree views of pristine mountains?
    — Kari Bodnarchuk, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Alpine wilderness, evergreen forests, lakes with mountainous backdrops, waterfalls, wildlife, over 1,600 types of plants, and even one of the last operating fire tower lookouts can also be enjoyed here—some from a distance.
    — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The namesake mountain, once the site of an 1800s resort with Oscar Wilde on its guest log, is just one of the area's many hiking opportunities; its trails ramble through oak and pine forest to a fire tower at the peak.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2023
  • Other spots with fire towers in the area include Morgan-Monroe State Forest, the Hoosier National Forest and Brown County State Park.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 18 Oct. 2024

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