MT. RAYMOND

	Lat / Long GDA	-37.711795, 148.600049
	Department	FCV...etc...DEECA
	Work Depot	Orbost
	Region	Gippsland
	Grading	Primary
	Elevation (ASL)	294m
	Height	50m (tower) 23m (cabin)
	Construction	Steel
	Cabin size	3m x 3m
	Public access to site	Yes
	In use since	19?? - 19?? (original timber) 1983 - current
	CFA Region	11 - Eastern

Photo supplied by Paul Jones

There used to be a wooden tower on this site; details are still being searched.
In notes from 1979, supplied by David Bannear it states: "The Mt. Raymond tower was inspected on the 18th October 1979. New leg bases have been spliced-in since the last inspection in March 1978. I now consider that this tower is safe for another 10 - 15 years".

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Closer look at cabin
Supplied by Paul Jones

2002, tower next to
Mt. Raymond tower
Supplied by Alex Wier

The photos below are screenshots, taken from the Victoria's Forests and Bushfire Heritage FaceBook site. They were posted at various times in the early 2020s.

Andrew Joseph supplied the following information in Sept 2021:
It seems you don’t have much information about the Mount Raymond Tower prior to the 1980s. I was on that tower as a fire spotter in the summer of 1963/64 for eleven weeks. I was 18 years old.
The tower was a wooden structure with a wooden cabin not far from the base. I was paid 30 pounds (a fortune!) for each 7 day week, and I spotted three fires over that summer. I have strong recollections of that time, and the people from the Country Fire Authority who brought me my groceries from Herbert's Snowy Rivers Stores in Orbost.
There was no running water and a generator powered the radio system, but nothing else. I believe tower burnt down the following year, and was rebuilt.
Regards, Andrew Joseph

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