An inside look at the grueling reality of working as a smokejumper, including training secrets, low starting salary, extreme ...

Let me paint you a nightmare scenario: You go to the office every day, knowing that at any moment, you could be told to pack up and leave on a spur-of-the-moment, 18-day business trip. When you arrive ...

Smokejumpers from West Yellowstone, Missoula and Boise, Idaho convened at the West Yellowstone Smokejumper Base just north of town in May to try their hand at the ram-air parachute. The early season ...

The job of the smokejumper is a dangerous one. They parachute out of planes to fight fires in difficult-to-access landscapes, especially here in the West. But it’s not a field that attracts ...

When dispatch calls in a new wildfire, Cole Siemion and the other Great Basin Smokejumpers are trained to suit up and be ready to board a plane in two minutes. Smokejumpers are highly trained wildland ...

When dispatch calls in a new wildfire, Cole Siemion and the other Great Basin Smokejumpers are trained to suit up and be ready to board a plane in two minutes. Smokejumpers are highly trained wildland ...

Rookie smokejumpers training in Redding have entered the third week of an intensive six-week program that prepares them to parachute into remote wildfires that other firefighters cannot reach. The ...

Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service Smokejumpers are conducting training jumps in Interior Alaska skies in preparation for the upcoming fire season. The required refresher and training jumps ...