This election season, NBC Montana is interviewing the candidates who hope to represent Montana in Washington D.C.Ahead of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 5—Randall "Ran" Crone used to split his time between Hawaii and Alaska, but life as a smokejumper took him to Missoula where ...

According to Boyer, art remained a constant interest even as his life took him through different careers. "I started doing artwork when I was young," he says. "Drawing animals was something I ...

A smokejumper is a unique type of wildland firefighter that’s trained to reach remote fires by parachuting from about 3,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sam Forstag, a smokejumper and union leader from Missoula, announced his candidacy for Montana's Western Congressional District on ...

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 ...

May 29--Robert Sallee, the last survivor of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which killed 13 smokejumpers in one of the U.S. Forest Service's worst firefighting disasters, died Monday. Sallee had been in ...

MISSOULA, Mont. – Fighting wildland fires is grimy, exhausting, dangerous and impressive. When smokejumpers do the work, parachuting in to wage the initial attack on fires in remote, rugged places, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal smokejumper deployed to Alabama to help battle wildfires has died a month after falling over a concrete railing while walking back to his hotel. Jefferson County Chief ...

While watching the coverage of the wildfires across the country and especially the Cameron Peak Fire here in Colorado, I came across this biography by Jason A. Ramos. I had heard of hotshot crews ...