<p>Smokejumpers with the U.S. Forest Service go through a pre-flight briefing before boarding a DC-3 in Missoula for a practice jump.</p>
April 17, 2013
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April 17, 2013 1:39 p.m.
Smokejumpers train for upcoming fire season
Members of a unique fraternity gathered on Wednesday in Missoula at the headquarters of the smokejumpers to practice their habit of jumping out of airplanes into wildfires. Some smokejumpers, including Dan Helterline of Plains, were not in Missoula having been deployed to a fire in Virginia.