Are we ignoring the smokejumpers? - Wildfire Today
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.
Source: wildfiretoday.com