In the 1930s, the Forest Service began testing the viability of parachuting small teams into remote areas, and on July 12, 1940, the first smokejumpers were deployed onto the Marten Creek Fire in ...

and we hike what looks like an old logging road through a blackened forest to the fire line. Twelve smokejumpers have been on this 120-acre (49-hectare) fire for nearly a week. It seems all but ...

Aerial firefighters have extensive flight training and experience, particularly in low-level flying, and carry out ...

You know what fire is. We jump tomorrow'," he recalled ... during which he was a district ranger in the Nez Perce National Forest. He was named smokejumper base superintendent in Missoula, Montana ...

In order to distract the authorities from Owen's death, the brothers start a forest-consuming fire with a flare. Having the bad guys spark the disaster definitely adds some extra intensity to the ...

On Thursday, the agency opened its application portal for a variety of positions, including positions on hand crews, engine crews, helicopter crews, wildland fire use modules, smokejumper crews and ...