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TikTok s Latest Superstar is a Forest Service Fire Lookout
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What makes for a compelling presence on TikTok? For some viewers, it might be the ability to gain insight into a favorite celebrity. For others, it might be irreverent comedy or insightful takes on politics. (Or both.) As with many social media platforms, the range of possibilities is virtually endless.
Writing at Gizmodo, Molly Sims offers readers a window into the life of Kelsey Sims, who has amassed a substantial following on the platform via an unexpected path. Sims works as a fire lookout for the Forest Service in New Mexico, and documents her life in a cabin on top of a mountain there. For viewers, that can mean everything from a tour of the cabin’s facilities to stunning images of the nearby landscape to alarming explorations of fires in the distance.
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By Toby Luckhurst
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Many of us struggled to adapt to home working and isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. 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.
Kelsey Sims was at home in Ohio at the start of the pandemic. The 26-year-old had previously worked as a firefighter, spending two years on fire engines in wild areas of Montana, but had recently lost her job and had no idea what to do next.