ENTWHISTLE
Whatcom County - State Division of Forestry - 37N-4E-19
1954: "Entwhistle Lookout in Whatcom County has a 40-foot tower with a 14x14 cab on top. The lookout is equipped with a new type cab designed and engineered by the Division Engineer and prefabricated in the shop during the winter. This new design has reduced by 40 per cent the number of sizes and pieces on the prefabricated building. It is more weather tight and is equipped for cooking and heating with bottle gas. The latter feature eliminates the fire hazard created by use of wood-burning stoves and chimneys in the old type cab." / "Construction of the road to Entwistle Lookout was extremely difficult since the last one-half mile had to be blasted out of sandstone rock." (Biennial Report of the Forestry Division)
January 10, 1955: "A new fire station lookout tower was dedicated recently to the first fire warden in all the west, William 'Uncle Billy' Entwhistle, aged 90, who was hired in 1908 by the Washington Forest Fire association as its first fire watcher. Two years earlier 'Uncle Billy' had worked for Weyerhauser posting fire warning signs along forest trails.
The Entwhistle lookout is located in Northwestern Washington about 15 miles from Bellingham.
Uncle Billy, who was present at the dedication says, 'The main thing in forestry is still--no fire.'' (Humboldt Standard - California)
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