Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 104

ft mt wm ee trmrrm 12-M Oakland Tribune, Sunday. June 12, 1955 177 TV 'Eye' Is Tesled As Fire Guard WWW' VWVJOWa Remote Control Camera 'Sees7 Puff of Smoke 20 Miles Away m. i iff I i By GEORGE ROSS the ned night and day during dangerous fire seasons. OVERLOOKS FQREST The tests were held at Mt. Danaher Station, State Division of Forestry installation eight miles east of here, on the edge of a bumper crop of pine and PLACER VILLE, June 11.

When smoke gets in. your eyes, you can trust TV. That is 'the lesson learned here by veteran "smoke-eaters" in a four-day test of television's ability to detect forest fires. They were impressed in the first day of testing, last Tuesday, when a tower-mounted television camera detected a forest fire 20 miles away and exposed it on monitdring screens in the fire dispatcher's office several minutes before the first telephone report was made from a manned mountain fir worth millions and highly combustible. 0 A remote-controlled camera Special remote control television camera, mounted on lookout tower 90 feet above State-Division of Forestry dispatcher's office at Mt.

Danaher, east of Placerville, watches for fires in test conducted this week. TV network could, backers say, replace human eye. on a 90-toot tower, capable of swinging around the horizon, changing its angle of elevation, and switching lenses on a turret head, was installed by the Han cock Electronics Corp. of Oak other state forestry heads, took part in the tests. land.

With addition of a device lookout. to give azimuth bearings, fire United States Forest Service But state, federal and county observers will take at least a officers, representing the Re dispatchers would have an exact location of any fire covered by gional Office in San Francisco; cameras reporting to them mon, engineer, set up and demonstrated the equipment for Hancock Electronics. The tests they performed, using filtered lenses to cut through haze, several combinations of lenses for scanning and for making detailed observations of fire scenes, were themselves filmed. Both movie and still photos of the TV screen, Pbotoi by Harvey McGre Ken Solomon (far left). Oakland television enaineer, adjusts picture of test forest fire lot- observers (from left).

Malcolm Dixon, state ranger; John Tomblin, assistant deputy state forester; John Hastings, fire control technician. State Division of Forestry. Hastings Li operating control box directing TV camera mounted on 90-foot tower. month to calibrate the results of tests which may determine If a network of television cameras, reporting to a battery of screens, cost would be "very favorable in comparison" to that of maintaining towers and residences for forest lookouts. OFFICIALS ATTEND State Forester Francis Raymond; W.

W. Winters, deputy state forester in charge of research and development; John Tomblin, assistant deputy state forester; John Hastings, state fire control technician; F. W. Warren Hancock, president; Winston Boone, closed-circuit can replace lookout towers man sales manager, and Ken Solo and of fires as seen from Jook- Forest Equipment Development Division at Arcadia; Range and Experimentation Station at University of California, also were present during part of the. test.

Officials of the Park Service, California Civil Defense, California Division of, Communications, Division of Highways, Department of Corrections, and others, also attended. This first western application of television to fire detection follows several refinements on the televising process, including out towers, will be compared. PHONE Costs of installing such a sys FATHER day $mmi tem were not made public, but AT Waikelee, state forestry equipment engineer; Makolm Dixon, state ranger at Danaher, and Hancock said he is certain the GL 1-6763 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Body Aches and Pains Quickly development of the small vidi-con tube used in the relatively Relieved By Natural Return small camera here. of Blood Circulation NOT A PILL OR TABLET, NOT A LIQUOR. BUT A NEW PROFESSIONAL HOSPITAL AND CLINICALLY DEVICE for quickly relieving body aches end pains by stimulating and increasing blood circulation thereby permitting nature to do the iob intended.

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