Smokejumper: And Other Stories
Author: Swede Troedsson
Publisher: Sweetgrass Books
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9781591522867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSwede's adventures include a summer on a fire lookout, deployment as a Marine to Korea, smoke jumping, fire suppression, timber forester, aviation management, hunting, assisting Montana Game Wardens, ski patrol, an ambulance EMT, and back country rescue. During the course of his employment as a Forester with the Northern Pacific Railway and with the U.S. Forest Service, he broke a leg smoke jumping, fell through the ice on the Swan River, dodged falling trees during a wind shear event, almost got burned up twice, and lost a pickup truck in a fire entrapment.