REDMOND, Ore (KTVZ) - Congressman Cliff Bentz was in Redmond Friday, speaking with smokejumpers from the Redmond Air Center. While there he took questions from KTVZ News. The Republican representative ...

Smokejumpers are a decades-old, well-proven "initial attack" resource for snuffing remote wildfires while they are small, but years of declining U.S. budgets have cut the elite teams' numbers ...

MISSOULA - One year after her incredible journey across the globe, Miss Montana’s story is No. 1 on an Amazon best-seller book list. Angela Marshall met up with the man, who put pen to paper to tell ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon is home to one of seven US Forest Service bases in the country—where smokejumpers convene and set out to be the first line of defense against wildfires. A ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Local smokejumpers are being recognized in Missoula this weekend for their tireless efforts to keep Montana communities safe during the last 85 years. On Friday, crews kicked off the ...

Big wildfires like the York fire in California and the blaze in Lahaina, Hawaii, have been big news stories recently. But there are many more fires that never make the headlines, and that's sometimes ...

In “Smokejumper,” veteran firefighter Jason Ramos chronicles the history of the elite group of airborne firefighters who attack blazes in some of the West’s most remote and rugged country.

MISSOULA- Saturday, eight smokejumpers from the 1961 Higgins Ridge fire reunited to share their stories and paint a picture for the public of the fateful events that day. The Higgins Ridge fire in ...

HELENA - When Bob Whaley began his stint with the smokejumpers out of Missoula in 1956, the tragic deaths of 12 young firefighters and a forest ranger in Mann Gulch in 1949 was fresh in everyone's ...