Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. As fire danger ratings throughout southwest Montana increase from low to moderate, people are ...

West Yellowstone, Mont.-based smokejumper Tim Hart suffered a hard landing in May 2021 while parachuting into a New Mexico fire and later died from his injuries. In 2013, veteran Bureau of Land ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho • Their hands were clean. Months from now, they would be covered in ash, their white fingernails contrasted by burnt earth ground into their fingers. By August, the only memory of today’s ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. – Fighting wildland fires is grimy, exhausting, dangerous and impressive. When smokejumpers do the work, parachuting in to wage the initial attack on fires in remote, rugged places, ...

BEND, Ore. — A dark speck fell out of the plane as it swooped 1,500 feet over Glaze Meadow, near Black Butte. The smokejumper fell for less than a second before her parachute streaked out behind her, ...

A fire west of Cody in August 1937 killed 15 wildland firefighters and injured dozens more. The devastating human toll ...

Below, you can find a transcribed interview with a Great Basin Smokejumper, Jeff Runck. We're back with Weather Wonders and for this episode, we're actually talking to a Smokejumper. Someone who is ...

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — Fighting fires is one of the hardest and most life-threatening jobs one can have, but how about right before you become a firefighter, you must skydive in from just around ...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A veteran smokejumper for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has died after parachuting from a plane during a training exercise in Idaho, the first such accident in 13 years, ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Fifteen-year U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter Ben Elkind is at his home in Redmond, recovering from a parachute training accident. It's a situation he knew was possible ...