Smokejumpers have to climb trees to retrieve supplies—or fellow smokejumpers—that get tangled up in the towering pines that dominate the American West. “It’s just a battery of stressful ...

FORT ST. JOHN, British Columbia (AP) - 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 ...

Schmitz is one of approximately a hundred American smokejumpers, firefighters who parachute into remote wildfires, working alongside their Canadian counterparts at the Fort St. John base ...

Smokejumpers are ideal for certain Canadian wildfires. As more than 900 fires burn in a Canadian fire season that has periodically pushed dangerous smoke south into the U.S. and even far east to ...

On March 15, 2025, Sgt. Joe Harris, one of the last surviving members of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, known as the ...

Native Report. Hotshot Artists and Smokejumpers. Season 18 Episode 7 | 26m 45s Video has Closed Captions | CC. We venture back to the Blackfeet Nation and learn more about what it's like to fight ...

Instead, he says, he gets a rush from not knowing exactly what he’ll face when he parachutes in as one of the smokejumpers confronting the wildfires that have scorched Canada this spring and ...

Instead, he says, he gets a rush from not knowing exactly what he’ll face when he parachutes in as one of the smokejumpers confronting the wildfires that have scorched Canada this spring and ...

Instead, he says, he gets a rush from not knowing exactly what he’ll face when he parachutes in as one of the smokejumpers confronting the wildfires that have scorched Canada this spring and ...