Earl Cooley, 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, has died. He was ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Fighting fires of any kind is a tough job. Only the bravest need apply. Imagine jumping out of a plane and into a wildfire. This is what a select group of National Park Service professionals called ...

Earl Cooley, 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, has died. He was ...

Laird Robinson, a former smoke jumper, talks to Melissa Block about Earl Cooley, who was with the first National Forest team that jumped into a fire in 1940. Cooley died Monday at 98. Smoke jumpers ...

-- Oct. 15--For someone who spent almost four decades working every summer in the wilderness of the western United States, Walt "Wally" Wasser hasn't seen much of the forest. "One of the things when ...

MISSOULA -- Earl Cooley, a pioneering smoke jumper who took the Forest Service's first leap into a flame-riddled wilderness, has died in Missoula. He was 98. Cooley made the jump into the Nez Perce ...

On Thursday, an elite group of fire fighters known as smoke jumpers were conducting training here in the Grand Valley, as the wildfire season in Colorado has picked up the pace. The firefighting crew ...

A fleet of firefighting aircraft and a crew of smoke jumpers are prepared at Grand Junction Regional Airport for a red-flag fire warning today across the Western Slope. Five heavy tankers — a quarter ...

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 ...