With the massive Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach this weekend, here’s a look at one of the most amazing jobs involving aviation there is in the West. If fighting wildfires across the West weren’t ...

REDDING -- Each spring, everyone who's anyone in the world of aerial firefighting converges on an open field just outside Redding, California, for one of the biggest drills of the year. The event, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The future of the West Yellowstone Smokejumper and Tanker Bases was the topic of discussion ...

The early season training helped educate jumpers on how to use a different parachute, which is also known as a canopy. Smokejumpers mainly use a round parachute for operations where they jump into ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the first time in 150 years, flames have burned through the historic McKinley Grove of Giant Sequoias, prompting an extraordinary firefighting effort to save some of the ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Aug. 5 took time to remember the 12 smokejumpers and local fire guard who lost their lives in the Mann Gulch Fire of 1949. The Mann Gulch Fire was officially reported around ...