MISSOULA, Mont. — Tributes continue for the firefighters who died at Mann Gulch 75 years ago. After the large ceremony in Helena, the National Smokejumper Association is planning graveside memorials ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 4—Seventy-five years ago, earth and sky turned into fire. The flames of the Mann Gulch fire spread rapidly, overtaking 16 men ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 5—Randall "Ran" Crone used to split his time between Hawaii and Alaska, but life as a smokejumper took him to Missoula where ...

» In addition to fire guard and former jumper William Harrison, who was from Missoula, the following smokejumpers perished in the Mann Gulch Fire: Robert Bennett, Paris, Tenn.; Eldon Diettert, ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — In the early 1960s a documentary film about a forest fire and smokejumpers in Montana premiered on Walt Disney's "Wonderful World of Color." "A Fire Called Jeremiah" captivated a boy ...

An August 1949 photo shows the scope of the Mann Gulch fire near Helena, Mont., which took the lives of 12 smokejumpers and a forest ranger when a wall of flame raced up a steep hillside. The ...

Aug. 4—Seventy-five years ago, earth and sky turned into fire. The flames of the Mann Gulch fire spread rapidly, overtaking 16 men sent to tame it in a gulch outside of Helena. Just three survived.