-- 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 ...
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 ...
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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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