A new digital fire lookout tower was installed last week in the McKenzie River Valley.
The camera is mounted on an EWEB communications tower that provides radio communication for EWEB’s Carmen-Smith hydroelectric project. This is the first ALERTWildfire camera in the area impacted by the Holiday Farm Fire.
ALERTWildfire is a project led by three universities, including the Oregon Hazards Lab at the University of Oregon, to provide cameras in wildlands that can help firefighters discover, monitor and contain wildfires.
You can watch EWEB’s video of the installation below and visit www.alertwildfire.org to see the new Deathball Mountain camera feed, as well as others in our area.