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Transcript: Remembering A Pioneering Smoke Jumper
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- NPR All Things Considered
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- November 12, 2009
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MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
11-12-2009
Remembering A Pioneering Smoke Jumper
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 20:00-21:00 PM
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MELISSA BLOCK, host:
Major League Baseball has its All-Stars, the military has the Special Forces and firefighters have the smokejumpers. These elite teams fly out over wildfires in the West, parachute into the burning forests and battle the flames until they're under control. Earl Cooley was with the first National Forest Service team that jumped into a fire in 1940, and he stayed with the Forest Service until 1975. Earl Cooley died on Monday in Missoula, Montana, at the age of 98. Laird Robinson was a smokejumper for more than 10 years and worked for ...
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