Major League Baseball has its All-Stars, the military has the Special Forces and firefighters have the smokejumpers. These elite teams fly out over wildfires in the West, parachute into the burning ...

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 ...

Triple Nickle “Smoke Jumper” at the jump door of his C-47 in full firefighting gear. (Photo provided by the AAM) To celebrate Black History Month, Farmingdale’s American Airpower Museum unveiled a new ...

While four of his colleagues were leaping out of an airplane 3,000 feet above Wednesday's forest fire on Smuggler Mountain, smoke jumper Shane Roach remained on standby at the Bureau of Land ...

Clarence Beavers, the last surviving member of America's first black parachute unit, a World War II "test platoon" that went on to battle fires caused by Japanese bombs and paved the way for black ...