Nick Hampe has worked seven years in wildland firefighting, and remembers while working on an engine crew in Montana seeing smokejumpers arriving on a fire by air. “I was just kind of sold on maybe ...

Smokejumpers can jump in higher winds and the forward speed of a ram-air canopy is 25 miles-per-hour, compared to only about 9 mph for a round parachute. “We go through this process of finding ...

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 ...

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 James Bergen steps from a plane and plummets toward fire below, he’s not scared. Instead, he says, he gets a rush from not knowing exactly what he’ll face when he parachutes in as one of the ...

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 ...

With the massive Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach this weekend, here’s a look at one of the most amazing jobs involving aviation there is in the West. If fighting wildfires across the West weren’t ...

DILLON - Eight smokejumpers parachuted to a remote lightning-caused fire Thursday, 35 miles southeast of Dillon on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. They reported the Deer Creek fire was ...

When 33-year-old Cole Skinner said he would be dropping by his workplace, he meant it literally. "The whole thing is a pure adrenaline rush," he said. Skinner is part of an elite group of firefighters ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FORT ST. JOHN, British Columbia (AP) — When ...

Originally published May 19 on IdahoCapitalSun.com. 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 ...