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The Grangeville Smokejumpers function as both a local and
a As a shared national resource, GAC jumpers respond to fires
throughout the rest of the Western United States, as well. Like all Forest
Service and Bureau of Land Management Smokejumpers, Grangeville jumpers
specialize in the use of parachutes and fixed-wing GAC is staffed by approximately 30 Smokejumpers, veteran firefighters typically ranging in age from their twenties to their fifties. GAC employees possess skills and experiences from a wide array of fields, from ranching and guiding to teaching and research. This diversity allows GAC jumpers to serve the U.S. Forest
Above all, the Grangeville Smokejumpers provide initial attack resources for remote wildland fire incidents. But GAC jumpers frequently serve as overhead and crewmembers for extended-attack suppression operations, prescribed-fire assignments, and other resource-management activities. (In recent years GAC jumpers have assisted with prescribed and wildland fire-use incidents throughout the Western, Mid-Western, and Southern states; timber marking and tree climbing throughout Idaho; NASA search operations in Texas; hurricane relief in the Gulf region; USDA arborist inspections in Chicago and New York City; and with wildland firefighter training courses around the country.) The Grangeville Smokejumpers utilize a DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft
for the delivery of personnel and cargo to wildland fire incidents. As
members of the Region One Smokejumper program, all GAC Smokejumpers undergo
extensive annual training in the use of parachutes in mountainous terrain
at the U.S. Forest Service Aerial Fire Depot in Missoula, Montana.
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