A fire west of Cody in August 1937 killed 15 wildland firefighters and injured dozens more. The devastating human toll ...
FRESNO, Calif. – Wildland firefighters known as smokejumpers and crews on the ground are working to prevent further losses of ancient sequoia trees in California as the Garnet Fire continues to burn ...
There’s a painting hanging in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters called “Khampa Airlift to Tibet.” “You look at the canopy of the parachute and you can tell they are ...
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The Deschutes National Forest of the USDA Forest Service said Monday it is now hiring for several seasonal positions, ...
Black Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a turboprop plane approached its pine-blanketed slopes, carrying about 10 men wearing bulky Kevlar ...
CONDON - When the Twin Otter plane took off, it was packed to the wings, its wide-eyed passengers peering out as propeller wash leveled a field of knee-high grass. But when it landed a half hour later ...
The U.S. Forest Service says a smokejumper has been killed while fighting one of dozens of lightning-sparked fires in northeast California. Luke Sheehy, of Susanville, was fatally injured by part of a ...
ELENA, Mont. — Smokejumpers, the firefighting elite who parachute to remote forest blazes and fight them, head for New Jersey this week to battle an insect the New York City parks commissioner has ...
In the alphabet soup of airplane names, a BT-67 is not a DC-3. The plane the “Band of Brothers” jumped out of at D-Day was a C-47. Seventy years and lots of civilian modifications later, James Bond ...
A unique fraternity of first responders gathered Tuesday, Aug. 6, to pay respects to more than a dozen men whose sacrifice 75 years ago this week still impacts firefighting today. On Aug. 5, 1949, 13 ...
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