CAHOON ROCK
Tulare County - Sequoia National Park
18S-30E-11
18S-30E-11
July 11, 1936: "Three distinct 'quakes were felt late yesterday in the Sequoia National Park. The first was reported by A.S. Walker, lookout at the Cahoon Rock Station, at an elevation of 9,000 feet. It occurred at 7:30 o'clock and was so severe it shook dishes from cupboards and rocked the lookout tower.
Walker said three inches of snow had fallen during the afternoon. Just before the earthquake, he said, there was an unnatural quiet, followed by a howling and roaring as the lookout tower started to sway. The quake only lasted a few seconds." (The Fresno Bee The Republican)
Walker said three inches of snow had fallen during the afternoon. Just before the earthquake, he said, there was an unnatural quiet, followed by a howling and roaring as the lookout tower started to sway. The quake only lasted a few seconds." (The Fresno Bee The Republican)
July 6, 1945: "Sequoia National Park officials today praised the action of Mrs. Rose Vaughn, woman fire lookout at Cahoon Rock, 10,500 feet elevation, in suppressing a lightning fire single handed. Assistant Park Superintendent Ford Spigelmyre said:
'Recently during one of the frequent lightning storms that sizzle the higher elevations at this time of the year, Mrs. Vaughn clearly demonstrated a frail woman of 100 pounds can handle a man sized job when the occasion arises.
'During a severe storm, lightning struck 150 yards from her station, setting fire to a mass of logs and debris, threatening a serious spread of fire had it not been for Mrs. Vaughn's stout heart and courage. With lightning striking all around her station and the nearest neighbor 11 miles away, she grabbed a shovel and went to work, stopping only occasionally to run to the tower to look for other strikes. When help arrived she had been able to report three additional fires and had brought her own under control.'
Mrs. Vaughn commented:
'Sure I was scared. That shovel was a big one and it got mighty heavy before I had the fire out.'
Chief Ranger John H. Wegner has promised to get Mrs. Vaughn a shovel more in keeping with her strength." (The Fresno Bee The Republican)
June 14, 1946: "Mrs. Rose Vaughn, the only woman lookout in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, left here today for remote Cahoon lookout.
From the top of the 10,500 foot mountain she will keep a summer long watch for forest fires in the South Fork country." (The Hanford Sentinel)
August 15, 1951: "A woman forest lookout was resting comfortably in Exeter Memorial hospital Tuesday following her rescue from a 9200-foot mountain peak, made necessary when she suddenly fell ill.
She is Mrs. Rose Vaughan of Three Rivers, Cal., who for nine years has held the job of scanning the Sequoia-Kings Canyon national parks are from lofty Cahoon rock. It is one of the highest and most remote fire lookout stations along the Sierras.
She was taken by pack train off Mt. Cahoon Monday by a rescue party consisting of park rangers Vernon Hennessey and Ted R. Thompson and ten members of a blister rust control crew.
Mrs. Vaughan had telephoned a ranger of her plight Sunday and when Dr. George Sheitz and his nurse, Elizabeth Clark, reached her, he ordered her removal to the hospital at once." (The Oregonian)