Fighting fires is one of the hardest and most life-threatening jobs one can have, but how about right before you become a ...

The D-Day invasion began in the dark early hours of June 6, 1944, when more than 13,000 U.S. Army paratroopers jumped into ...

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 ...

(06-11) 16:37 PDT ALTURAS (MODOC COUNTY)-- A 28-year-old U.S. Forest Service smokejumper died after a tree fell on him while he was fighting a Northern California wildfire, authorities said. Luke ...

ANCHORAGE — Smokejumper Murry Taylor can measure the toll of this summer’s wildfire season in his tired muscles and aching joints. “We’ve gone up and down, up and down very steep hills ...

If you’re facing a belt-bursting all-you-can-eat spread, you could do worse than wrap your gut in Best Made’s Smokejumper belt. The woven Kevlar used in the $42 Smokejumper can hold at least ...

Missoula's Roger Savage spent decades meticulously building a digital database of every smokejumper and every jump in U.S. Forest Service Region 1. In conjunction with the National Smokejumper ...

SMOKEJUMPER BASE: Free tours offered six times daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day; 406-329-4934. The Missoula Technology and Development Center offers tours by appointment; 406-329-3900.

A 28-year-old U.S. Forest Service smokejumper died battling a wildfire in Northern California, officials said Tuesday. Luke Sheehy was struck by a falling portion of a tree while he was fighting ...

BOISE, Idaho A Bureau of Land Management smokejumper has died in a parachuting accident while training, officials at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said. Authorities say 40-year-old ...

Tim Hart, a smokejumper who was raised in the north suburbs, died in June 2021 at age 36 from injuries suffered while parachuting to fight a forest fire in New Mexico. He joined the Youth ...

The smokejumper visitor center remains one of Missoula’s top attractions for people from elsewhere. It figures to be a magnet this weekend, as hundreds of flyers from across the west come to the ...