A sign of springtime in Interior Alaska is the Alaska smoke jumpers and their brightly colored canopies as they perform annual refresher training jumps in preparation for the upcoming fire season.
This year, Mother Nature hit the pause button on these jumps as temperatures dipped below the 15-degree temperature threshold. Those jumps resumed on the day of this video, Monday, April 12, 2021.
The first batch of smokejumpers should be through with the refresher training and available to respond to fires around April 23, 2021.
People may see smokejumpers in the Fairbanks area skies and surrounding area through the spring and summer as they continue to train to maintain proficiency.
The mission of the Alaska Smokejumpers is to provide users with highly qualified, safe, and aggressive wildland firefighters whom quickly and effectively respond to initial attack, extended attack, and point protection missions in Alaska and the Lower 48 states.
The Alaska Smokejumpers are a branch of the Alaska Fire Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Since 1959, the Alaska Smokejumpers have protected federal, state and private lands in Alaska and the Lower 48 states from the threat of wildfires.
The approximately 70 Alaska Smokejumpers are the primary initial attack force for federally protected lands in Alaska and provide significant assistance to interagency partners in Alaska and the Lower 48 states. Utilizing high performance fixed-wing aircraft and specialized parachutes, the Alaska Smokejumpers provide a rapid and long-range response capability for a wide variety of wildland fire missions.
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