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The Smokejumper Parachute Landing Injury Database and eSafety are the two databases used to record and collect data regarding smokejumper injuries in the United States. Serious and minor injuries are logged in this database depending on the many factors. Serious injuries are categorized as: Requiring hospitalization for greater than 48 hours,
The National Smokejumper Association (NSA) is a non-profit (), American organization based in Missoula, Montana, [2] that preserves the history of aerial fire management, or smokejumping, through interviews, rosters, photographs, films, letters, reports and publications.
8:00 am – US Forest Service aerial observers report no new fires at Mann Gulch. [3] 9:00 am (approx.) – Ranger Jansson contacted James O. Harrison, former smokejumper and recreation guard at the Meriwether Canyon guard station and directed him to conduct a foot patrol in Mann Gulch to search for possible sleeper fires. [1] [3]
Smokejumper crews leap from airplanes to confront wildfires from the sky, encountering danger before even reaching the flames.
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The Illinois Valley Airport, also known as the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base, or even the Cave Junction Airport, was built by the US Forest Service. It operated from 1943 to 1981 as a smokejumper base, during which time the smokejumpers parachuted on 1445 fires for 5390 fire jumps, or about 142 jumps per year. [ 3 ]
A member of the Ventana Hotshots works to keep fire out of a tree canopy during backfiring operations on the Monument Fire.. In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-22 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad.
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