when the US Forest Service realized it needed to stop remote fires before they became too big to handle. In all, there are about 400 Smokejumpers in the U.S., but as climate change intensifies ...

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 ...