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 ...

With its mix of beige-hued, sheet-metal buildings, the Redmond Air Center adheres like an appendage to the small municipal airport in central Oregon. The otherwise crystal blue sky is carpeted with a ...

Fort Leavenworth Honors the 555th BN Smokejumpers with a memorial program. FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan.-- Fort Leavenworth, the Combined Arms Center (CAC), and the Special Troops Battalion (CAC STB) ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Fighting wildland fires is grimy, exhausting, dangerous and impressive. When smokejumpers do the work, parachuting in to wage the initial attack on fires in remote, rugged places, ...

Below, you can find a transcribed interview with a Great Basin Smokejumper, Jeff Runck. We're back with Weather Wonders and for this episode, we're actually talking to a Smokejumper. Someone who is ...