But the few remaining fire lookouts of the US Forest Service often live and work for weeks at a time on their own, scouring the horizon for any hint of smoke from remote lookout towers.

"But the emphasis has been on putting out any fires - and with climate change this has now created a tinderbox of vegetation," says Prof Doerr. The US Forest Service has been trying to rectify ...

New York parks and recreation aide Dariel Vasquez died while battling a forest fire in Orange County on Saturday, New York ...