TRIUNFO PEAK
Ventura County - Los Angeles County Forestry Department
June 27, 1930: "Installation of telephone service today completed the new Ventura county fire lookout station at Triunfo peak, it was announced by the fire warden's office. The station, located 2,600 feet above sea level, is for observation of fires in the coming dry season." (News-Pilot)
October 31, 1930: "Jack Fletcher, fire lookout on Triunfo peak, was rescued from a close brush with death in the flames when the fire leaped up his frame lookout tower. Deputy Fire Warden Walter Clayber, believing the heavy smoke hid the danger sweeping down upon the lookout, raced through the flames in his light automobile truck. He reached Fletcher before the flames caught up, but their truck caught fire as they fled back through the fire line. The men abandoned the truck and escaped with only minor burns." (Oakland Tribune)
October 31, 1930: "Jack Fletcher, fire lookout on Triunfo peak, was rescued from a close brush with death in the flames when the fire leaped up his frame lookout tower. Deputy Fire Warden Walter Clayber, believing the heavy smoke hid the danger sweeping down upon the lookout, raced through the flames in his light automobile truck. He reached Fletcher before the flames caught up, but their truck caught fire as they fled back through the fire line. The men abandoned the truck and escaped with only minor burns." (Oakland Tribune)
November 26, 1934: "The lookout tower at Bodel peak in the Malibu division has been dismantled and is being re-erected at Triunfo peak. This is a 60-foot steel tower and will improve the detection system for that area." (Oxnard Daily Courier)
June 30, 1935: "A lookout tower was constructed on Triunfo Peak in the Malibu Division." (Los Angeles County Forestry Department Annual Report - Fiscal Year ending 6/30/1935)
June 30, 1935: "A lookout tower was constructed on Triunfo Peak in the Malibu Division." (Los Angeles County Forestry Department Annual Report - Fiscal Year ending 6/30/1935)
November 9, 1955: "Ventura County Dispatcher Leonard Huck said that the fire burned out of control all night on a front that ran southwest behind the Triunfo Lookout Station through the Yerba Buena area and into the west fork of Arroyo Sequit Canyon near the Los Angeles County line.
The lookout station is on an 80-foot steel tower atop bare rock and Huck said he did not believe it was burned." (Press-Courier)
October 4, 1958: "Fire completely destroyed a $10,000 home and its contents on the Huston ranch, Pacific View road at the mouth of Deer Canyon, about four miles north of the Ventura County line last night while the owners were away from the house.
The fire was discovered from a lookout station on Mount Triunfo. Eight pieces of fire equipment, includes five engines, one tanker and three patrols, were rushed to the scene from stations at Thousand Oaks, Camarillo and Lake Sherwood." (Oxnard Press-Courier)
October 4, 1958: "Fire completely destroyed a $10,000 home and its contents on the Huston ranch, Pacific View road at the mouth of Deer Canyon, about four miles north of the Ventura County line last night while the owners were away from the house.
The fire was discovered from a lookout station on Mount Triunfo. Eight pieces of fire equipment, includes five engines, one tanker and three patrols, were rushed to the scene from stations at Thousand Oaks, Camarillo and Lake Sherwood." (Oxnard Press-Courier)
July 22, 1969: The Los Angeles County Fire Department has closed the Triunfo Lookout Tower at the Los Angeles Ventura County border. Helicopters have taken over the fire detection duties. (Van Nuys Valley News and Green Sheet)
