"I will remind you that you wrote some time ago about J.B. Bruce's scheme of dropping men from airplanes for firefighting. I am willing to take a chance on most any kind of a proposition that promises ...

Missoula has a long and significant history with the profession of smokejumping, and this summer the National Smokejumpers Association will hold a three-day event in town for the 85th anniversary of ...

Big wildfires like the York fire in California and the blaze in Lahaina, Hawaii, have been big news stories recently. But there are many more fires that never make the headlines, and that's sometimes ...

The first time Frank Fowler flew in an airplane, he jumped out of it. He had his mother to thank. Fowler’s mother, Helen, was 46 when he was born — the youngest of eight children in a family living in ...

Alaska is heading into wildfire season, and firefighters are gearing up to be ready for it. That includes smokejumpers, who parachute in to fight some of the most remote fires, often providing the ...

In this photo from 1945, paratroopers of the 555th Parachute Infantry climb into their parachute harnesses before boarding a plane of the First Troop Carrier Command. The C-47 would drop the airborne ...