Flying through smoke and red-hot cinders, the pilots of fire-fighting aircraft help stop wildfires from spreading. Their sophisticated fixed-wing and helicopter tankers drop water and foam on fires to put the flames out. When this fails, smoke jumpers parachute into the blazing landscape to fight the fire from the ground. Both the pilots and smoke jumpers put themselves at great personal risk to extinguish the fires, while saving people and their homes. Firsthand reports from the pilots and smoke jumpers take readers along ...
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Flying through smoke and red-hot cinders, the pilots of fire-fighting aircraft help stop wildfires from spreading. Their sophisticated fixed-wing and helicopter tankers drop water and foam on fires to put the flames out. When this fails, smoke jumpers parachute into the blazing landscape to fight the fire from the ground. Both the pilots and smoke jumpers put themselves at great personal risk to extinguish the fires, while saving people and their homes. Firsthand reports from the pilots and smoke jumpers take readers along on exciting fire-fighting missions.
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