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Since 2020 smokejumpers have averaged only 4.5 fire jumps each season. That’s a terrible under-utilization of an important firefighting resource. In the past we easily jumped twice that many, and some years four times as many. I’ve seen it many times while on the Duzel Rock lookout southeast of Happy Camp, California -- fires were not staffed for a day or two and then went big and cost tens or even hundreds of millions while the jumpers sat unused.

Former smokejumper writes about increasingly more dangerous job in Too Steep and Too Rough.

Join us for a conversation about the human and natural histories in, on, and around Puget Sound. Click here to register via EventBrite. David B. Williams will discuss his new book Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound with Mary Ann Gwinn. The event is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company and University of Washington Press. This event is supported by The Seattle Public Library Foundation. Thanks to media sponsor The Seattle Times. ABOUT THE BOOK: Not far from S...

174-year-old geoducks and other mysteries of Puget Sound history April 21, 2021 at 9:24 am Author David B. Williams at Richmond Beach in Shoreline; his new book is called "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound." (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) It’s been a transportation system and a source of food, and it’s a body of water that underpins thousands of years of history and culture in this area. And now, Puget Sound is the focus of an ambitious new history book. ...

Cant get back up the way you came. too steep. was. working. >> reporter: what happened then? >> ax walked off behind the rock, i almost shot him. he sat indian style against my left hip and leaned against my right leg. he said im sorry, bro, i cant help you, im blind. they shot me in the face. >> reporter: the seals were surrounded. they hadnt gotten through on the radio so he says lieutenant mike murphy decided to move to a completely exposed position to get a signal on his satellite phone an...

Information, the radar data, atc information, and the flight data recorder parameters and also interview the plights. its really important to put all you have the pieces of the puzzle together, to not just understand what happened, but understand why it happened so we can prevent accidents like this occurring in the future. >> sure. i can understand that it be less important that the pilot may have been come in at too steep a angle and that too slow of a pace. and you need to know why that is so...

Survivable accidents, which many accidents are. >> was it miraculous or the result of something that so many did survive? >> you know, i would say much of this is the result of the hard work of the aviation community taking accidents, taking lessons learned and plowing them back in, whether its the design of aircraft or training of crew members. and even passenger. and we cant stress this enough, many accidents are survivable. its about knowing where the exits are and listening to the flight cre...

Aircraft or training of crew members, and even passengers. and we cant stress this enough. many accidents are survivable. its about knowing where those exits are and listening to the flight crew in an emergency situation. very important. >> and let me ask you. i hope you heard our richard quest, who reported that the flight data that hes seen shows a plane that is coming in too steep, the angle of it, and too slowly for that runway. what does that tell you? >> well, you know, were going to have ...

Interview the pilots. its really important to put all you have the pieces of the puzzle together, to not just understand what happened, but understand why it happened so we can prevent accidents like this occurring in the future. >> sure. i can understand that it be less important that the pilot may have been come in at too steep a angle and that too slow of a pace. and you need to know why that is so? >> sure. and you know what? stabilized approaches have long been a concern, safety concern for...

>> you know, i would say much of this is the result of the hard work of the aviation community taking accidents, taking lessons learned and plowing them back in, whether its the design of aircraft or training of crew members. and even passengers. and we cant stress this enough, many accidents are survivable. its about knowing where the exits are and listening to the flight crew in an emergency situation. very important. >> and let me ask you, i hope you heard our richard quest who reported that ...