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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.

The LA County Fire Department Lifeguards clock in at the Malibu triathlon.

More than three years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with an MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway, the U.S. government is suing several businesses, the airport, the city, and a pilot.

70 Years Ago: The whopping vegetable, surely enough to supply a sizeable tureen of turnips for a father, mother and 14 kids, is a purple top Globe variety, and has

A man in his 20s was airlifted after suffering a fall in Griffith Park, according to LAFD.