MISSOULA- Saturday, eight smokejumpers from the 1961 Higgins Ridge fire reunited to share their stories and paint a picture for the public of the fateful events that day. The Higgins Ridge fire in ...

Moorland native Jackson Johnson, who’s currently stationed at the U.S. Forest Service base in McCall, Idaho, showed a video of his commute to work during his presentation Saturday at the Coffee and ...

The U.S. Forest Service says a smokejumper has been killed while fighting one of dozens of lightning-sparked fires in northeast California. Luke Sheehy, of Susanville, was fatally injured by part of a ...

Wildland firefighter Tim Hart, who was injured on May 24 while fighting a fire in New Mexico, has died from his injuries, the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday. Hart was flown by air ambulance to a ...

BILLINGS (AP) — Arsenic-tainted water, sewage problems and old seasonal housing at West Yellowstone's 1960s-era smokejumper base have put the future of the Forest Service facility in question. "In the ...

For former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper Wayne Williams, the best part of reading an Idaho author’s recent book was finding out what happened to the dog at the end. Williams was one of the first ...

U.S. Forest Service smokejumper Kevin Schmitz rigs a parachute July 1 in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Schmitz is one of approximately a hundred American smokejumpers, firefighters who parachute ...

ELENA, Mont. — Smokejumpers, the firefighting elite who parachute to remote forest blazes and fight them, head for New Jersey this week to battle an insect the New York City parks commissioner has ...

In the alphabet soup of airplane names, a BT-67 is not a DC-3. The plane the “Band of Brothers” jumped out of at D-Day was a C-47. Seventy years and lots of civilian modifications later, James Bond ...

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 ...