Twelve smokejumpers have been on this 120-acre (49-hectare) fire for nearly a week. It seems all but dead on this flank, but the guys chop a few saplings to make handles for their rakes and shovel ...

Fully dressed, they appear awkwardly overstuffed, but every man carries a carefully curated, time-tested kit of the essential items a smokejumper needs to fight and survive a fire in some of the ...

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 ...

according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. Western 'smoke jumpers' to be brought in to Jennings Creek fight The Town of Tuxedo announced Thursday that "smoke jumpers," trained experts who ...