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The Lolo Hotshots were founded in 1961 and are considered to be one of the first hotshot crews in the United States. [3] [4] [5] The Lolo Hotshots received their first dispatch in 1969 to fight the Russian River Fire in Alaska.
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) house 320 smokejumpers yearly, across nine bases in the western third of the country, in Idaho (3), Montana (2), California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. [10] In 2020, across all the bases, 1,130 jumps were executed, with a total of 5211 days spent on initial attack. [11]
Laird Robinson (1997–1999): Laird Robinson was a smokejumper in Montana for the Forest Service for over 10 years. [18] He began his smokejumping career at the Flathead National Forest from 1961 to 1967, then for the U.S. Air Force from 1967 to 1971.
Looking for outdoor jobs? If you’re physically fit and enjoy hard work, consider becoming a wildland or forest firefighter. You could earn up to $40,000 for a six-month season fighting forest fires.
A member of the Ventana Hotshots works to keep fire out of a tree canopy during backfiring operations on the Monument Fire.. In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-22 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad.
Neptune's BAe 146 aircraft were the first aircraft that met the Forest Service criteria to qualify as next-generation air tankers, which require the aircraft to be turbine or turbofan powered, be able to cruise at 300 knots (345 mph), and have a retardant capacity of at least 3,000 US gallons (11,000 L; 2,500 imp gal). Neptune chose the BAe 146 ...