Smokejumper(en.wikipedia.org) |
Smokejumper(en.wikipedia.org) |
This also reminds me of an old joke:
Q: "Why are there wildland firefighters?"
A: "Because structural firefighters need heroes too."
Later, I worked for the Forest Service doing IT, and remember seeing the smoke jumper training which involved taking off from the airfield in Missoula and getting dropped somewhere in the surrounding hillsides, and them showing up back at the smoke jumper center several hours later with their packs.
Totally badass.
So far, I’ve successfully avoided the trees.
Aiming for trees?
No thanks.....but good on those who do and then climb down to fight fires.