Shirley Payne, a U.S. Forest Service fire spotter at Baker Butte Lookout for the past 24 years, works alone to spot forest fires near Pine, Arizona.

For eight hours a day, six days a week, all through wildfire season, Shirley Payne scans the horizon for smoke that could signal danger.

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