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Smoke Jumpers Protect Forests With Parachute Firefighting
The article describes smoke jumpers begun in 1939 as experiments and first flown in 1940. About 290 jumpers work for the USDA Forest Service and others for Park Service and BLM, each averaging 8 to 10 fire jumps per season through September. Jumpers, often college students, train two weeks physically and seven qualifying jumps before joining a Winthrop Washington base team.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Park Service
Bureau of Land Management
Winthrop
Washington