The boots on the ground in the fight against wildfires

Smokejumpers from the US Forest Service, the US Bureau of Land Management in Alaska, and the BC Wildfire Service in British Columbia, Canada discussed how they parachute into rugged terrain to snuff wildfires which would otherwise be inaccessible to wildland firefighters on the ground.

The boots on the ground in the fight against wildfires

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