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fire-spotter
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person employed to watch for and locate forest fires.
See: towerman
Quotations
1962
For a fire-spotter life from early May to October is a constant dawn-to-dusk vigil.
1965
He works in the summer months as a fire spotter at the Montgomery lake tower in the Petawawa forestry reserve.