MISSOULA, Mont. - The busy fire season has a local fire fighting company in dire need for crew members. Wildcat Fire Suppression owns 11 fire trucks, yet it only has enough firefighters to man eight ...
Major League Baseball has its All-Stars, the military has the Special Forces and firefighters have the smokejumpers. These elite teams fly out over wildfires in the West, parachute into the burning ...
Triple Nickle “Smoke Jumper” at the jump door of his C-47 in full firefighting gear. (Photo provided by the AAM) To celebrate Black History Month, Farmingdale’s American Airpower Museum unveiled a new ...
Earl Cooley, 98, who was one of the first two U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, died Nov. 9 ...
While four of his colleagues were leaping out of an airplane 3,000 feet above Wednesday's forest fire on Smuggler Mountain, smoke jumper Shane Roach remained on standby at the Bureau of Land ...
A group of smoke jumpers swept into Custer County on Monday. There wasn't smoke or a fire for the parachuting unit to attack; the jumpers were only training on Bureau of Land Management property near ...
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