Towers: Fire Towers

towers: Having worked on fire suppression, one is aware how quickly they can get out of control, according to The Chronicle Herald. The effectiveness of the towers became restricted when hours were reduced to eight per day. This decision also affects the safety of nearby communities. It is surprising and unfortunate the province, without input from private landowners, decided to eliminate the long-time and basically effective fire towers, opting to depend on the public and aircraft to report smoke from fires. In fires such as Maitland Bridge-Kedge, excessive costs for fire control and to landowners far outweigh those for the towers and observers. Fire towers might not have been ideal but for decades were an important part of fire detection and suppression. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.