Seventy feet off the ground, looking out over the treetops of the DAR State Forest, gusty winds were keeping Sean Cadigan and John Celona inside the fire tower.The two men, who are the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s tower repair and.
Fire towers have been a feature of the Massachusetts landscape for close to 150 years, and they’re still using the same technology they always did.One of the first formal fire tower efforts in the country began with construction of a tower in Plymouth.