Both the Smokey Bear character and the real life Smokey hail from Washington, D.C. In 1950, an orphaned bear cub was rescued from a wildfire in New Mexico and brought to Washington to live at the ...

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The advertising campaign began in 1944 and is considered the longest-running public service announcement campaign in U.S. history A real-life Smokey Bear was found burned and clinging to a tree ...