VIDEO: So far this year, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service says there have been 277 wildfires in the state with nearly 300 acres burned. Fire season just began.
The first line of defense? Well, they sit 100 feet or higher in the sky. "Nothing else like it," NJFFS Fire Observer, Mark Turner, said. He's been with the fire service for eight years.
Turner spends eight hours a day — alone — up in the sky. On Tuesday, CBS News Philadelphia met him 100 feet in the air at the Blue Anchor Fire Tower, and to get there, we all walked up a narrow zig-zagged staircase.
"A lot of people think, 'Ah, I couldn't do that because you're just stuck in a box all day,' but if you really look at the big picture — sometimes there's a lot going on," Turner said. Arguably there is a lot going on all the time.