By Janet Eastman | The Oregonian/OregonLive Retired smokejumper Gary Buck stopped parachuting out of airplanes into forest fires...
Smoke Jumping
By DENNIS WEBB Dennis.Webb@gjsentinel.com Nick Hampe has worked seven years in wildland firefighting, and remembers while working...
By: Andrew Avitt It’s that time of year when wildfire activity is increasing across the country. Have...
BY DANIELLE LETENYEI The fires in Canada continue to rage on. Almost 400 fires started in the Canadian province of British Columbia...
To become a smokejumper requires completion of intensive training in physical conditioning, parachuting, and forest-fire suppression. The...
By Gregory Scruggs WINTHROP, Okanogan County — Somewhere deep in the North Cascades, lightning strikes a parched mountainside,...
by STEVE BENHAM | KATU Staff REDMOND, Ore. (KATU) — It’s not hard to compare the nation’s smokejumpers to...
From rigging their own parachutes to learning to sew gear, smokejumpers in Idaho are preparing for this...
By Seth Boster Special from The Gazette As part of her annual spring training before another summer...
“Higgins Ridge,” the excellent documentary on the 1961 Higgins Ridge Fire in Idaho, produced by Breanna McCabe,...
