KANGAROO GROUND

	Lat / Long GDA	-37.68856, 145.22481
	Department	CFA
	Work Depot	Kangaroo Ground
	Region	Port Phillip East
	Grading	Primary
	Elevation (ASL)	200m
	Height	12m
	Construction	Stone
	Cabin size	2m x 2m
	Public access to site	Yes
	In use since	1948
	CFA Region	13 - Central

Photo (2000) by Andre Belterman

The stone structure, a replica of old English and Scottish watch towers, was built as a Memorial and completed in 1926.
Records show that the tower was used for "fire watching" prior to 1948. The cabin was added in the early 1970s to give the fire spotter some protection from the weather.
Information above was supplied by Keith Sharp, a CFA volunteer towerman for many years.
Keith also supplied a document with some history about the tower.
A copy of the document can be found here.

Addition of the cabin

The Diamond Valley paper published a story in Oct 2009 about the FLOs and their involvement in the 7th Feb 2009 Black Saturday fires.
A copy of the article can be found here.

The tower received a new cabin in December 2009. The photos below were supplied by Paul Jones.
Please click on thumbnails below for enlargements


09th December 2009 nearly finished	09th December 2009 nearly finished	14th December 2009 lock-up	14th December 2009 lock-up

The tower was visited as part of the yearly FLO gathering in May 2010.
Photo supplied by Andre Belterman.

The above photos were taken and supplied by Andre Belterman in April 2023.

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