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A rare inside go through the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute in to the most remote control and rugged regions of america, confronting the growing risk of nature's blazes. Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier yearly - record drought conditions, years of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment of home housing in to the wilderness have merged to create a powder keg that threatens millions of acres and thousands of lives every year. One select band of men and women are part of America's front-line protection: smokejumpers. The smokejumper program runs through both US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Though they can be tremendously skilled, and only highly experienced and able wildland firefighters are accepted in to the training program, being a smokejumper remains a skill that may be learned only face to face. Forest fires often behave in unpredictable ways: spreading easily, capturing downhill behind a stiff tailwind, or even streaming like a liquid. On this extraordinarily exceptional memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes listeners into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping's impressive history, and points out why their services are definitely more essential than previously.
