Earl Cooley, who was one of the first two U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, has died. He was ...
Earl Cooley, who was one of the first two U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, has died. He was ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Fighting fires of any kind is a tough job. Only the bravest need apply. Imagine jumping out of a plane and into a wildfire. This is what a select group of National Park Service professionals called ...
MISSOULA -- Earl Cooley, a pioneering smoke jumper who took the Forest Service's first leap into a flame-riddled wilderness, has died in Missoula. He was 98. Cooley made the jump into the Nez Perce ...
-- Oct. 15--For someone who spent almost four decades working every summer in the wilderness of the western United States, Walt "Wally" Wasser hasn't seen much of the forest. "One of the things when ...
On Thursday, an elite group of fire fighters known as smoke jumpers were conducting training here in the Grand Valley, as the wildfire season in Colorado has picked up the pace. The firefighting crew ...
Earl Cooley, 98, who was one of the first two U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, died Nov. 9 ...
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