DCHP-3

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.

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.