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Smoke Jumping Into History

June 02, 2015 Robert Hudson Westover, U.S. Forest Service, Office of Communications

Most people don’t conjure up images of the U.S. Forest Service when they think of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. But every fire season the work of the Forest Service’s planes and helicopters, carrying smokejumpers, are vitally important to controlling the spread of wildland fires. This is...

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