With the massive Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach this weekend, here’s a look at one of the most amazing jobs involving aviation there is in the West. If fighting wildfires across the West weren’t ...

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 face when he parachutes in as one of the ...

Hiker Sarah Brandt wandered into the past when she arrived in southwest Oregon’s Siskiyou Smokejumper Base where wildfire fighters once parachuted out of airplanes into blazing forests. Brandt, who ...

Somewhere deep in the North Cascades, lightning strikes a parched mountainside, igniting a wildfire. Someone spots the blaze and calls emergency services. The tip gets routed to a U.S. Forest Service ...

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 ...

Smokejumpers are an elite crew of U.S. Forest Service firefighters who get to wildfires by parachuting into them. Here, a member of the Redmond Smokejumper Base heads for a fire. Garrett Allen puts ...

REDDING -- Each spring, everyone who's anyone in the world of aerial firefighting converges on an open field just outside Redding, California, for one of the biggest drills of the year. The event, ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - Missoula smokejumpers are working with less as fire season flares up late in the year. Fewer than 50 jumpers are based in Missoula this time of year, compared to around 70 in ...