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Hallie Morse Daggett – the first female fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service • Helen Dowe –
Devil's Head Lookout at Pike National Forest (1918) • Ramona Merwin and family –
Vetter Mountain, raised her family in the lookout • Howard "Razz" Gardner and Keith V. Johnson "
The Lookout Air Raid" a little-known Japanese aircraft attack of Oregon, USA during World War II •
Roy Sullivan, worked as a fire lookout in his early career as a U.S. National Park Ranger, but was best known for having set a world record for surviving seven lightning strikes during his life. •
Jack Kerouac, whose books
The Dharma Bums,
Desolation Angels and
Lonesome Traveler include accounts of his job as a fire lookout on
Desolation Peak in the
North Cascades during the summer of 1956. •
Edward Abbey, who was a fire lookout at Mt. Harkness (1966; Lassen National Park), Atacosa (1968; Coronado National Forest), North Rim (1969–1971; Grand Canyon National Park), Numa Ridge (1975; Glacier National Park), and Aztec Peak (1977–1979; Tonto National Forest). •
Doug Peacock, who was a fire lookout at Huckleberry and Scalplock in Glacier National Park from 1976 to 1984. •
Gary Snyder, who was a fire lookout at Crater Peak and Sourdough Mountain in the North Cascades. •
Philip Whalen, who was a fire lookout on Sourdough Mountain and Sauk Mountain in the North Cascades. •
Norman Maclean, who chronicled his experience in "
USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky" •
Philip Connors, writer •
Thomas William Ah Chow was a Chinese-Australian who lived in the remote Moscow Villa in the 1940s. •
Rachel Lindgren,
Jeopardy! champion • Ferdinand Martinů, father of the Czech composer
Bohuslav Martinů, was a shoemaker, also worked as the church sexton and town fire watchman in the tower of the St. Jakub Church in Polička, Bohemia. Furthermore, Bohuslav Martinů was born in said tower. •
Margaret Thatcher, worked as a fire lookout in
Grantham during the Second World War. •
Morten Lauridsen, composer, worked as a fire fighter and lookout in Washington State == In popular culture ==