six-week training course to join the smoke jumpers unit. a group who parachutes into forest fires to surround and attack them fast. we jump from 1,500 feet above the ground and it takes four seconds to open, and you have a minute in the air and it goes by very quickly. once the jumpers land safely the plane drops down the gear. boxes of shovels and chain saws to cut containment lines to keep the fire from spreading and when the fire is completely out they haul the equipment out on their back. let s go. along with rigorous conditioning and class work they practice exit jumps, landing jumps, and rapelling in case the chute is caught in a tree. of the 200 who apply only five