Stone's Source - Part # IV /56 I do not choose to glorify the inside of existence, nor its surface, or the hands of time passing into midnight or across other distances which also pass and which do not come back. I do not choose to glorify the ways which ruin, in infamy, predates experience, nor the experience, nor the infamy. I do not choose to glorify all that has been left here by the time of that instant or the balance of its return which is empty, or the way around its return which is cold or the way through its return which we all fear if we know it and ignore if we don't. That is not worth the glory of one voice in hope or the others without color or shape. They do not issue from the device of its form, and its form is like that when it visits stars or star-shaped stones, or the liquid orbs of space, whic...
The FIre finger at Red Top Lookout, near Swak Pass, WA, is typical of many other lookouts, both surviving and relegated to memory. It stands in the center of the lookout and is used to generate numbers which, when called in to firefighters, gives them references to the fire's location and makes it easier to find. As you an imagine, if you get close enough to a fire, you'll start to see the smoke, but down under the canopy, climbing up a drainage slope, the smoke isn't always visible, so you first use the lookouts description and then start using your senses to find the actual fire. From there, it is up to the crew to either extinguish it, monitor it for a while, or set back and wait for rain,, whichever fits the operation plan of the day.
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