-- Oct. 15--For someone who spent almost four decades working every summer in the wilderness of the western United States, Walt "Wally" Wasser hasn't seen much of the forest. "One of the things when ...

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 ...

MISSOULA -- Earl Cooley, a pioneering smoke jumper who took the Forest Service's first leap into a flame-riddled wilderness, has died in Missoula. He was 98. Cooley made the jump into the Nez Perce ...

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 ...

A fleet of firefighting aircraft and a crew of smoke jumpers are prepared at Grand Junction Regional Airport for a red-flag fire warning today across the Western Slope. Five heavy tankers — a quarter ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Climate change in the Western U.S. means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent to affect tens of ...