Earl Cooley, 98, who was one of the first two U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, died Nov. 9 ...

Major League Baseball has its All-Stars, the military has the Special Forces and firefighters have the smokejumpers. These elite teams fly out over wildfires in the West, parachute into the burning ...

Triple Nickle “Smoke Jumper” at the jump door of his C-47 in full firefighting gear. (Photo provided by the AAM) To celebrate Black History Month, Farmingdale’s American Airpower Museum unveiled a new ...

All spring, people strolling through Central Park have been noticing people in trees, climbing way up on long ropes and moving from branch to branch. They are not New Yorkers, but smoke jumpers from ...