Re: Sunset Peak -- Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association

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Date Posted: 00:50:44 06/30/04 Wed
Author: Chuck McFate
Subject: Re: Sunset Peak
In reply to: Bob Withrow 's message, "Sunset Peak" on 08:43:46 06/04/04 Fri

Hey Bob,
I have not been able to get anything on Sunset.
I have to look in another place for some more info.

Will try to get back to you sooner.
Thx.

See you up on the Mountain,

Chuck McFate
Team leader, Slide Mountain lookout
www.anffla.org

>Does anyone have any information on the former Sunset
>Peak Lookout on the Old Baldy Ranger District on the
>Angeles National Forest? I am especially interested
>in when it was last in service, when and how it was
>destroyed, and what happened to Frank.
>
>I was a tanker crewman at the Lower San Station in
>1970 and we serviced the lookout weekly. Frank was
>kind of a codger and sometimes, after hours he would
>get into it with Sandy on Hawkins. One day Frank
>called us and said somebody called looking for Joe,
>and Frank said Joe went out back to take a s__t and
>the hogs ate him. Half an hour later Frank called us
>again and said he had another caller looking for Joe,
>and he told the caller that someone else called for
>Joe and he told the caller what happened. Half an
>hour after that, one of us called Frank and he was Joe
>and asked if there were any calls for him. Frank
>didn't know it was us and marveled at the coincidence.
> He found out on our next trip to Sunset because we
>couldn't keep from laughing. He would speak to us for
>a week which was unusual because he would call Lower
>San several times a day.
>
>I fought fire on the Angeles for four years; two on
>the Dalton Hot Shots (66 & 68), Chantry Flats (67),
>Lower San (70). Anyone out there on Dalton those two
>years?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bob

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