Show U S smoke jumpers wage blit blitzkrieg ak on forest fir fires prehistoric man could produce fire but bbott he acou could not always it out modern man finds himself in much the same sam predicament pred icam 1 1 when it romes to putting out large scale fires such as forest forestie fo fire 8 are rl likely to become but he is making great strides towards tolvar ds gain e 1 trig ing fire control by using parac parachutes autes to combat forest fores t fires started stara star either by mans carelessness or by natures blitzkrieg blitz kriegs the vf ii S forest service demonstrates that parachute troops may be uw used t fight destruction as well as to cause it the smoke jumpers ha hav performed excellent work in combating dry lightning blazes in our 0 w national forests this summer g as t A C I 1 em y 7 oss the heavily woo ed slopes of a forest area A al 1 1 1 W 01 descending to the scene of the forest blaze the parachute is specially designed with a rate of descent of about twelve feet per second none too happy a landing but this frequently happens when the smoke jumpers drop to the scene of a national forest blaze the mask worn by the jumper protects his face from branches clear the ship then pull A 4 parachute jumping fire fighter is shown taking his lo 10 long n g drop here he has just pulled the ripcord of his parachute w az t Z T ZW manna for U S forest firefighters member of a plane crew is about to drop a bundte bundle of supplies by parachute to firefighters who efio had dropped to the he scone scene by parachute IF the kit of a forest service smoke jumper it consists 01 f the j tools for nipping fires in the bud rations first aid kit ai x p radiophone a mask for treetop landings and a light sons rop |