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Larry Brown, Oxford, MS 1993—photograph by Tom Rankin

Southern Writer Larry Brown Gets His Due

Matt Oakleaf, camera mounted on his gear bag, drops behind the rest of his team to a landing site near smoldering boreal forest. Jumpers can put on 100 pounds of gear and get on a plane in minutes. Their mission: extinguish fires before they rage out of control. (Photograph by Mark Thiessen / National Geographic)

Train Like A Firefighter With the Alaskan Smokejumper Workout Test

Matt Oakleaf, camera mounted on his gear bag, drops behind the rest of his team to a landing site near smoldering boreal forest. Jumpers can put on 100 pounds of gear and get on a plane in minutes. Their mission: extinguish fires before they rage out of control. (Photograph by Mark Thiessen / National Geographic)

In the Air and on the Ground With Alaskan Smokejumpers

Santa Rose California forest fire

On the Front Lines of America’s War on Fire