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	Smokejumpers
		The smokejumper program began in 1939 as an experiment in the Pacific Northwest Region, and the first fire jump was made in 1940 on Idaho's Nez Perce National Forest in the Northern Region.
		Smokejumpers must be in excellent physical condition and possess a high degree of emotional stability and mental alertness.
		During the spring training period for new smokejumpers, and refresher training for experienced smokejumpers, they practice the basics of their craft such as aircraft exiting procedures, parachute maneuvering and emergency procedures, parachute landing rolls, timber let-down procedures, parachute and cargo retrieval, and tree climbing.
	www.fs.fed.us /fire/people/smokejumpers (554 words)

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		Smokejumpers must be able to combat high winds, steep terrain, heavy fuel loads, and drought conditions, regardless of gender.
		And when a smokejumper enters a fire they must carry enough food and water to be self-sustaining for two days, in addition to their equipment.
		He estimates that among the 70 plus smokejumpers at his station approximately ten of them are women and none of the them are given preferential treatment.
	www.meltmagazine.com /35_2004/page2.htm (850 words)

	Firehouse.Com - In The Line of Duty - 4/30/00 - Training Exercise Claims Alaska Smokejumper
		Smokejumpers in Alaska and Idaho are temporarily suspending all parachute activities until investigators find out why a 28-year-old man's chute failed to open during training Saturday, Apr. 29.
		Liston, a smokejumper with the BLM Alaska Fire Service since 1998, was making a practice jump to prepare for the fire season when his parachute failed to open.
		Williams said fellow smokejumpers parachuting during the training exercise came to the person's aid--the firefighters are also trained in emergency medical care.
	www.firehouse.com /lodd/2000/alaska_apr29.html (759 words)

	CNN.com - Oldest smokejumper chooses historic season as last - August 28, 2000
		The 400 smokejumpers employed by the BLM and U.S. Forest Service are the first line of defense in fighting wildland fires.
		In the backcountry of the Rocky Mountains, smokejumpers often are the first firefighters on the scene, and their success or failure may mean the difference between a small fire quickly contained and an explosive fire of disastrous proportions.
		A smokejumper can earn anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000 a year, depending upon the severity of the fire season and the amount of overtime and hazard pay.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/08/28/great.burn.smokejump.ap (1232 words)

	Smokejumper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The extra risk and trouble associated with this method is justified by reaching a wildfire shortly after ignition when it is still relatively small.
		The largest disaster involving smokejumper deaths on the job was the Mann Gulch fire blowup of 1949.
		In the United States, smokejumper bases currently operate in Missoula, Montana, Fairbanks, Alaska, Boise, Idaho, McCall, Idaho, Winthrop, Washington, Redding, California, West Yellowstone, Montana, Grangeville, Idaho, and Redmond, Oregon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smokejumper (524 words)

	Smokejumpers and Smokejumping
		Smokejumpers are wildland firefighters who specialize in parachuting to fires in remote areas.
		Smokejumpers may leave a fire by helicopter, on a four-wheel drive fire engine, or, if necessary, by packing up all their equipment and doing a "pack-out." Packs average slightly over 100 pounds, but may weigh 120 pounds or more.
		Smokejumper training is intensive and consists of lots of physical fitness (PT) training as well as training in parachuting.
	www.bucktrack.com /Smokejumping.html (2311 words)

	Smokejumpers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Smokejumpers are highly trained wildland firefighters whose mode of rapid transportation to the fire is an airplane and parachute.
		The BLM smokejumpers are stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska and Boise, Idaho.
		Smokejumping began on a trial basis in 1939 when test procedures and equipment were developed, and followed by test jumps in the North Cascade mountains near Winthrop, Washington.
	www.nifc.gov /nifctour/smoke.html (731 words)

	SmokerJumper Animated Cartoon + What it's like To Be One from Brownielocks.
		Smokejumpers will tell you that the tanker pilots are the real heroes of the wild land fire fighting.
		The smokejumpers come under the Bureau of Land Management, whose unofficial policy is to not kill a bear unless it's eating you.
		Smokejumpers call the Grizzly Bear "Ursus Arctos Horribilus or the horrible one." Ironically, the grizzlies are not their biggest trouble makers and they have few encounters with them.
	www.brownielocks.com /smokejumpers.html (3898 words)

	Smokejumper Job \| US Forest Service
		Smokejumpers are flown into hot areas that hotshot crews and other firefighters cannot reach.
		Smokejumpers must furnish their own boots, as well as a knife and a watch.
		Smokejumpers are expected to know how to fight fires before they arrive at training camp.
	www.jobmonkey.com /parks/html/smokejumpers.html (655 words)

	Mail Tribune News - Smokejumper puts life into memoirs
		In contrast to Norman Maclean, who late in life wrote the classic "Young Men and Fire," the story of Montana’s 1949 Mann Gulch Fire in which 13 smokejumpers died, Taylor is very much an actor in the sweep of his own book.
		He says the smokejumper’s worst nightmare is a high, rocky ridge with strong wind, an active fire and lots of snags.
		Smokejumping takes a toll on jumpers’ personal lives, he says.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2000/november/111000n5.htm (769 words)

	Missoula Smokejumpers
		The base is situated at the west end of the airport along with the Region One Fire Cache, the Interagency Fire Science laboratory, and the Northern Region Training Center.
		Ranging in age from early 20's to 50's, these are all dedicated and professional individuals who are highly-trained and experienced firefighters.
		A smokejumper's primary job is to suppress wildfires in remote mountainous terrain of the western United States.
	www.fs.fed.us /fire/people/smokejumpers/missoula (213 words)

	Alibris: Smokejumpers
		Harrowing true stories, Smokejumpers chronicles the heroic efforts of the airborne firefighters who battled one of this century's worst killer blazes on top of Colorado's Storm King Mountain.
		This memoir of an Alaskan smokejumper's experiences in fire fighting covers three decades and is based on journals that he kept during one summer.
		This is the story of Civilian Public Service smokejumpers, who battled against dangerous winds, searing heat, and devastating fires from 1943 until 1945.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Smokejumpers (741 words)

	The Transformers Archive » Transformers Toys
		Smokejumper is the little cyberjet that docks with Dreadwind and forms the rear of the B2.
		Earlier I said he was an adapted mold, and that's because his wings had to be made small enough to fit inside the larger plane.
		The missle turret folds up into Smokejumper's dock to be a jet engine facing the rear of the plane.
	tfarchive.com /toys/reviews/rid_sjdw.php (1045 words)

	Dreadwind and Smokejumper Toy Reviews
		Mold History: Dreadwing and Smokejumper's mold dates back to 1994, when they were called "Dreadwing and Smokescreen", part of Generation 2.
		Oh, and Smokejumper has two side-mounted missile launchers that can fire their own missiles individually.
		Smokejumper's "wing" backpack also tends to come out of its set place rather easily, but it's not THAT annoying.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/bbfortress/dreadjumper.html (782 words)

	Smokejumpers.com :. Become A Smokejumper
		It's prohibitively expensive for us to provide a detailed answer to everyone, so our solution is to offer a special Associate NSA membership for those seeking to learn about or stay current with the profession.
		It is not necessary to join the National Smokejumper Association in order to become a smokejumper.
		Your Associate membership in the National Smokejumper Association will bring you a quarterly magazine that will keep you up to date on current smokejumper activities, notices of special events, reunions, elements of smokejumper history, and the opportunity to purchase jumper-related items such as caps and T-shirts.
	www.smokejumpers.com /become_a_smokejumper/index.php (683 words)

	Bozeman Watch Company
		Smokejumpers are firefighters who take the ultimate risk, parachuting out of planes and into forest fires.
		This new watch is a chronograph that measures 45mm in diameter and is crafted in steel.
		A portion of the proceeds are donated to the smokejumper association (sic).
	www.bozemanwatch.com /press.asp (403 words)

	Women Smokejumpers: Fighting Fires, Stereotypes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She is one of the elite in the corps of wildfire fighters: a smokejumper.
		Smokejumpers are dispatched to the fires that are too remote, the terrain too rugged, or the heat and flames too intense to reach otherwise.
		You have to love it to do it, and smokejumpers are nothing if not passionate about their work.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/08/0808_030808_smokejumpers.html (813 words)

	Air America Association - Articles
		When Jerry and I began rookie smokejumper training in June 1958, he had been 17 years old less than a week and was a rising senior at Missoula Sentinel High School.
		These are not unusual smokejumper traits but he was an outstanding example.
		Jack, a Ph.D. in physiology, a winner of Olympic silver and bronze medals in the modern penthathlon competition, and a professor at the State University of New York at Cortland, is puzzled by two aspects.
	www.air-america.org /Articles/Donner1.shtml (2921 words)

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		A steering group has been formed consisting of current and retired smokejumper base managers, retired and current smokejumpers with various skills, and professionals that share the Smokejumper Center`s Vision.
		A Junior Smokejumper Program will be presented daily this summer for children ages 5-12 at the West Yellowstone, Montana city park.
		We are interested in reaching out to all past and current smokejumpers who are interested in telling the smokejumper story to the public.
	www.smokejumpercenter.com (277 words)

	Smokejumper: 'Jumping just a bonus' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The smokejumpers receive a call when a fire is too remote for vehicles.
		Their equipment parachutes separately, and after extinguishing the blaze, a helicopter with drop line retrieves the heavy equipment, leaving the smokejumpers to hike out.
		Despite the thrill of jumping and fighting fires, Pennacchio said most smokejumpers are not adrenaline junkies.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/050305/smoke.shtml (332 words)

	Smokejumper to get heroism award - Wonderful World - MSNBC.com
		BEND, Ore. - Ron Rucker, a Redmond-based smokejumper, dragged himself from the wreckage of a twin-engine airplane after it crashed in Nevada on July 21, 2005.
		But then he saw that Marge Kuehn-Tabor, a smokejumper he was training to be an air tactical group supervisor, was still alive -- and he went back into the the wreckage and dragged her out.
		Smokejumpers are highly trained firefighters who parachute into areas difficult to reach through other means, generally as an initial attack.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14789814 (594 words)

	Missoulian - Stories unfurl at smokejumper reunion
		Former smokejumpers Chuck Sigler, Chuck Viviano and Don Heinicke, from left, admire the Ford Tri-Motor on hand at the 50th anniversary of the Aerial Fire Depot on Saturday afternoon.
		On Saturday he was on hand again, for the 50th anniversary and rededication ceremony for the depot, now a multi-agency regional center of fire management known as the Missoula Fire, Science and Technology Center.
		He was chatting with several of his old smokejumper buddies, including Bob Hewitt of Memphis, Tenn., who jumped from 1956 to 1958; Herb Fischer of Parker, Texas, who jumped from 1957 to 1960; and Chuck Viviano of Cyprus, Calif., who jumped in 1953 and 1954.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2004/06/20/news/local/news02.txt (1029 words)

	Smokejumping and Forest Fire Fighting Oral History Project
		He met with five former smokejumpers of the roughly dozen smokejumpers in attendance at the smokejumpers' coffee meeting.
		While the project initially focused on individuals who jumped from the McCall camp during the 1940s, it has expanded to include not only smokejumpers of the 1950s to the 1990s but also other forest fire fighters and support personnel.
		As of March 2002, the IOHC has recorded the stories, memories, and opinions of 30 different men and women who helped suppress or manage blazes in the forests of not only Idaho but also forests throughout the U.S. West.
	www.idahohistory.net /smokejumper.html (968 words)

	BLM Smokejumpers
		First year smokejumper vacancies are usually advertised in the middle of October and close the first of December (these dates vary).
		These are announced and advertised roughly simultaneously with the dates of the GS-5 rookie smokejumper positions.
		The BLM Boise Smokejumpers offer positions for those with the required fire experience and permanent career conditional status.
	www.fire.blm.gov /smokejumper/first_year/apply.htm (171 words)

	Smokejumper from Bozeman Watch Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The SmokeJumper Chronograph is the first in our series of automatic watches to be released, and this aviator's special was designed with a hero in mind; our National Smokejumpers.
		The Official Watch of The National Smokejumper Association; we pay tribute to the firefighters who risk it all to preserve life, save property, and protect our national forests, and with each purchase a charitable contribution will be made to The National Smokejumper Association.
		The Bozeman Watch Company has awarded the NSA approximately $5,500 through the "Governor's Edition" auction and is proud to support our high-flying firefighters as they prepare for what's shaping up to be a destructive fire season in 2007.
	www.bozemanwatch.com /singleproduct.asp?id=427 (152 words)

	Coyote Aerospace Fire Control - A retired Smokejumper setting the record straight.
		A team of 5 Smokejumper volunteers reopened a trail that was damaged by the Silver fire of 1987.
		A description of the Smokejumpers that protected the area of the Biscuit fire for many years.
		This white paper examines the Biscuit Fire Chronology in the light of known fire behavior, the existing fire potential and the known availability of Smokejumpers at the time that the Florence, Biscuit #1 Biscuit #2 and Sourdough fires were started by lighting.
	www.coyoteaerospace.com /jumper01.html (518 words)

	Corpus Christi computer repair, service, upgrades, networking, virus removal and more - Smokejumper Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is where you'll find articles on various computer topics and Ask-a-Tech (Smokejumper Solutions' question and answer column).
		In The Bench, you'll find timely articles, spotlighted questions and expert answers, information on new technologies and more, all designed to make computing a safer and more enjoyable experience.
		Here is a list of 8 tips that will help you avoid spam.
	www.smokejumpersolutions.com /techscorner.html (261 words)

	Link Page
		See some smokejumper photos including wildfires, parachutes, and smokejumpers in action.
		Also a brief description of smokejumping and tactics.
		Specifically be sure to check out the page : http://www.fieldingtravel.com/df/dngrjobs.htm for a view of smokejumping as a dangerous job.
	home.gci.net /~aksmj/link_sect/links.html (120 words)

	The Smokejumpers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is the Internet home of The Smokejumpers, purveyors of hampster-slappin' punk rockabilly in San Francisco from 1996-2000.
		The band no longer plays shows, but you can still buy our albums, "Flat Tear It Up" and "So Long, Suckers." Information on how to do that, along with photos, a history and other fun stuff, is coming soon.
		Please note: The Smokejumpers should not be confused with a band in New England that's using the same name, despite having been warned that "The Smokejumpers" is a registered trademark.
	smokejumper.com (186 words)

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