MISSOULA, Mont. — The University of Montana will celebrate Smokejumper alumni who survived the 1961 wildfire. They will recount their experiences in a panel at the "Higgins Ridge" film premiere. The ...

Hollywood history has no shortage of firefighting movies, but most adaptations focus on urban firefighters battling blazes in highrises, tracking down arsonists or chronicling the bravery of emergency ...

Ashley Taylor has a business degree. The initial plan wasn’t for her to jump out of planes for a living (with more than 100 pounds worth of tools and a parachute strapped to her), to fight wildfires ...

Mark Mullin has sold his suspense/thriller pitch “Untitled Smokejumpers Project” to Columbia Pictures. Pitch was based on the adventures of what Mullin describes as “the Green Berets of firefighting,” ...

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, ...