One of the survivors from the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, Bob Sallee, will be at the Meriwether picnic area Aug. 2-5 as part of ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of the deadly blaze. On Aug. 5, ...

MISSOULA (AP) - A museum here is exhibiting the airplane that flew 15 smokejumpers to a 1949 wildfire where 12 of them and a forest ranger died, a catastrophe that changed firefighting and was told in ...