Earl Cooley, 98, who was one of the first two U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, died Nov. 9 ...

A 91-year-old smokejumper who completed an impressive 333 missions over a three-decade career was honored in the wildland firefighting community Sunday. William Yensen, known as "Wild Bill" since his ...