What is a smokejumper? Smokejumpers are the elite, airborne firefighters you’ve never heard of! These firefighters jump out of planes to respond to wildland fighters. Thune Breaks With House GOP in ...

They’ve seen fire. Even jumped on it in their younger days. But two California men who “rookied” at the Missoula smokejumper base 15 years apart never experienced anything like the flames that laid ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the first time in 150 years, flames have burned through the historic McKinley Grove of Giant Sequoias, prompting an extraordinary firefighting effort to save some of the ...

REDMOND, Ore (KTVZ) - Congressman Cliff Bentz was in Redmond Friday, speaking with smokejumpers from the Redmond Air Center. While there he took questions from KTVZ News. The Republican representative ...

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — Fighting fires is one of the hardest and most life-threatening jobs one can have, but how about right before you become a firefighter, you must skydive in from just around ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon is home to one of seven US Forest Service bases in the country—where smokejumpers convene and set out to be the first line of defense against wildfires. A ...

Hiker Sarah Brandt wandered into the past when she arrived in southwest Oregon’s Siskiyou Smokejumper Base where wildfire fighters once parachuted out of airplanes into blazing forests. Brandt, who ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Local smokejumpers are being recognized in Missoula this weekend for their tireless efforts to keep Montana communities safe during the last 85 years. On Friday, crews kicked off the ...

Missoula has a long and significant history with the profession of smokejumping, and this summer the National Smokejumpers Association will hold a three-day event in town for the 85th anniversary of ...

Randall “Ran” Crone used to split his time between Hawaii and Alaska, but life as a smokejumper took him to Missoula where his habit of reinforcing his gear would eventually turn into a business of ...

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