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Fire Finder
- Description
- A: Large circular metal object with a paper topographic map mounted on it.
B: The metal dial and ruler (alidade) has a look similar to a compass, and is used to determine the location of the fire on the map. It is stamped with "British Columbia Forest Service / Model 51"
- Original Owner
- Northwest Fire Centre
- BC Forest Service
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Sub-Category
- SURVEYING AND NAVIGATIONAL TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Place Used
- Northwest Fire Centre
- Start Date
- 1945
- Description
- A: Large circular metal object with a paper topographic map mounted on it.
B: The metal dial and ruler (alidade) has a look similar to a compass, and is used to determine the location of the fire on the map. It is stamped with "British Columbia Forest Service / Model 51"
- Publications
- From the Back Room article, July 2021
- History Of Use
- Fire finders were set up and precisely located in lookouts. One finder in each lookout was used to locate a fire in a specific direction, then triangulated with another 2 lookouts to find the exact location of any fire. Source: BC Forest Service's Centenary website http://www.bcfs100.ca/ (accessed 2017-11-02).
- Number Of Parts
- 2
- Accession No.
- 2009.48.1 a-b
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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