Smokejumper

Red Skies are fast- and - advance units of the fire brigade, the jump in wildland fires as paratroopers over the fire area and with primitive means try firefighters. For self- protection, they carry an " igloo " with it, which is built up in the event of a roll-over by the fire and can be used as a protective building. It withstands temperatures up to 900 ° C.

They operate particularly in the extensive forests of the U.S. and Canada or the taiga of Siberia ( Awialessoochrana ). In these regions, the accessibility of ground-based emergency services is limited or not possible at all at first, so that these units jump from special aircraft as close to the fire to progress from there on foot. The firefighters will be recorded with wildland tools, which is primarily are small hand pumps, spades and saws.

The smoke jumpers are often celebrated because of the risk their type of service and the inserts as heroes, for example, although the U.S. Forest Service had to complain no losses to Man 's Gulch forest fire.

Trivia

• The U.S. feature film The Red Skies of Montana with Richard Widmark shows semi-documentary work of the smoke jumpers in use.
• Nicholas Evans ( " The Horse Whisperer " ) has published a book of the same on the smoke jumpers in Montana.
• Norman Maclean described the fire and the subsequent disaster at the Mann Gulch so precisely that the American organizational psychologist Karl E. Weick used this description to a well-known analysis of the sensemaking.