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Hundreds of would be smokejumpers seek perilous frontier work
Missoula observers describe the US Forest Service smokejumper program which pays as little as 3.52 an hour and draws hundreds of applicants for a limited 140 positions. Veterans fill all slots as training remains grueling and vastly experienced crews pursue fires across the western United States.
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