MISSOULA, Mont. — A fundraiser is underway to help a Missoula smokejumper reportedly injured while parachuting to a fire outside of Pray. The Missoula Smokejumper Welfare Fund is running a GoFundMe to ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A an online fundraiser has raised more than $27,000 to help a Missoula smokejumper injured while parachuting to a fire outside of Pray. The Missoula Smokejumper Welfare Fund is ...

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, ...

Smokejumpers are known for launching themselves into tough terrain, but the training for that jump all starts right here in Missoula. 28,820 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve ...

In the alphabet soup of airplane names, a BT-67 is not a DC-3. The plane the “Band of Brothers” jumped out of at D-Day was a C-47. Seventy years and lots of civilian modifications later, James Bond ...

According to Missoula Police Department spokesperson Lydia Arnold, the incident was an "officer-involved shooting," but there was no clarification about who fired the fatal shot. Missoula police ...

Missoula has a long and significant history with the profession of smokejumping, and this summer the National Smokejumpers Association will hold a three-day event in town for the 85th anniversary of ...

The yellowing pages fill binders packed into cardboard boxes at the Missoula Smokejumper Base; they contain almost a century of profound but niche history: every jump made by every smokejumper there ...

May 5—Randall "Ran" Crone used to split his time between Hawaii and Alaska, but life as a smokejumper took him to Missoula where his habit of reinforcing his gear would eventually turn into a business ...

MISSOULA - One year after her incredible journey across the globe, Miss Montana’s story is No. 1 on an Amazon best-seller book list. Angela Marshall met up with the man, who put pen to paper to tell ...

MISSOULA (AP) -- A few thousand people gathered Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Forest Service's Aerial Fire Depot. Many were greeted by one of the original smokejumpers, Fred Brauer ...