Download or read book Smokejumper Saga written by John Crues and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather Hunt was four years old when a wildfire tragedy struck her family. The trauma of that event eventually created an overwhelming desire in her to become a firefighter. After her applications to the US Forest Service in Idaho and Washington State were rejected because she was a woman, she found her way to Fairbanks, Alaska where she joined the first all-women's wildfire fighting crew. Jack Duncan came from a family with a long tradition of working in the US Forest Service. After struggling through the grueling smokejumper training in Missoula, Montana, he became the sector boss for the Heather's first fire in Alaska. The dramatic events of that summer in the early 1970's changed the face of wildfire fighting forever and set Heather and Jack on a collision course with destiny.
Download or read book Smokejumper to Global Pilot A True Odyssey written by Lee Gossett and published by National Smokejumper Association. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smokejumper to Global Pilot is an excellent description of an incredible string of events that Lee Gossett started when he was a young teenager hanging around the local airport. Learning to fly and licensed by 16, he moved down many paths which included being a smokejumper, a "kicker" for Air America in Southeast Asia, a crop duster in New Zealand, and a pilot for Air America, Continental Air Services, and eventually for the proprietary replacement for Air America. From "can do" operations and "out of the box" thinking to the development and adaption of innovative new technology, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers, not just aircraft aficionados. Simply put this is a guidebook to creating an adventurous life by never letting an opportunity pass you by.
Download or read book Smoke Jumper written by R. A. Montgomery and published by Skylark. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you fight a forest fire without getting trapped in the flames? Depending on your choices, you could be caught in the path of the fire, unable to escape, or you could thwart the plans of a band of environmental terrorists and become a hero.
Download or read book Smokejumpers of the Civilian Public Service in World War II written by Robert C. Cottrell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Civilian Public Service smokejumpers, who battled against dangerous winds, searing heat, and devastating fires from 1943 until 1945. Fewer than 300 World War II conscientious objectors served their country in this fashion, operating out of CPS bases in Montana, Idaho, and Oregon. But that small band of men helped to keep alive Forest Service operations in the Pacific Northwest and thus sustained a program to fight potentially crippling fires. When the war ended, CPS smokejumpers, like millions of World War II combat soldiers, were "ushered out" of wartime service. Some, like many returning GIs, encountered difficulties in adjusting to civilian life. Nevertheless, the one-time smokejumpers often went on to make other remarkable contributions to their communities, their nation, and the world.
Download or read book The Smoke Jumper written by Nicholas Evans and published by Dell. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers another hero... The Smoke Jumper His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his best friend and fellow “smoke jumper,” Ed Tully. Julia loves them both--until a fiery tragedy on Montana’s Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them, and burns a brand on all their hearts. In the wake of the fire, Connor embarks on a harrowing journey to the edge of human experience, traveling the world’s worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but never happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, again and again he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, he must walk through fire once more...
Download or read book The Smoke Jumper written by Nicholas Evans and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smoke Jumper written by Nick Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging images accompany information about smoke jumpers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book To the Last Smoke written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
Download or read book V ga Gl ms Saga written by Gabriel Turville-Petre and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smoke Jumpers written by R. A. Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weeks of training may leave you feeling prepared for the exciting first jump into the forest fires of the Pacific Northwest, but you can't be sure until you take your first leap from a plane! Jumping is just the beginning. Did your training ready you for solitary treks through the wilderness even the rangers never venture through? These fires are unpredictable -- you might even suspect arsonists are afoot in these beautiful forests.
Download or read book The Best Kept Secret written by Tawna Fenske and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurse Nyla Franklin knows three things to be true: 1) taking care of others is more joyous than a basket of kittens; 2) a triple-fudge sundae can cure just about anything; and 3) no good ever comes from keeping a secret. So when her best friend spills a big one, Nyla knows she’s not just holding a secret. She’s holding a ticking time bomb. Mr. Always Does the Right Thing Leo Sayre is discovering that pain meds are apparently his truth serum. Now his best friend Nyla—the smartest, funniest, and sexiest woman ever—knows the biggest, darkest secret about his past. And the confession has everything flipped upside down and turned inside out...including his relationship with Nyla. But secrets have a way of piling up, and it’s just a matter of time before someone lights a match. Because while the truth can set you free, it can also burn completely out of control... Each book in the Where There’s Smoke series is STANDALONE: * The Two-Date Rule * Just a Little Bet * The Best Kept Secret
Download or read book My Dad s a Smokejumper written by Mary Lou Hill and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl describes her father's work as a smokejumper.
Download or read book A Firestorm in Paradise written by Rana Safvi and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1857 Uprising of India, the old Delhi, or Shahjahanabad is sprawling with life—like an ode wavering towards its end. The inhabitants of Red Fort and the splendored world around it, all subjects of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lived on the cusp of a change with the arrival of the British. Yet, people’s own stories continued against backdrop of this transition. At the centre of this sprawling narrative is a princess, Falak Ara, daughter of the Emperor. Beautiful and vivacious, Falak Ara is curious about the world outside the fort but never imagines being able to leave. Soon, she loses her heart to a salatin—a prince— and longs for a union with him. Her quest is made difficult by a changing Shahjahanabad, on whose horizon lurks a revolution. Author Rana Safvi unspools the aches of a young heart as she pays homage to Old Delhi—which, like a living, breathing being, has many moods and survives a lifetime in this novel A Firestorm in Paradise.
Download or read book Addicted to His Fire written by Dawn Molly (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oh the Weather Outside Is Frightful Extended Edition written by Susan May Warren and published by Sdg Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She kept him alive in his darkest hour... CJ St. John never dreamed his epic summer as a smokejumper would end with a harrowing plane crash-one that crushed his pelvis and rendered him nearly an invalid.He wouldn't have made it through the dark night of pain and danger without brave fellow smokejumper Hannah Butcher.In fact, if he were to admit it, he probably fell in love with her that night. He gave her the courage to reach for her dreams... Hannah Butcher had dreamed of being a smokejumper for years-but dreaming and doing are vastly different. During rookie camp, she would have given up if it hadn't been for CJ St. John urging her on. She probably fell in love with him then-but especially when he held her hand and kept her calm during their terrifying survival. A winter storm awakens their memories-and fears... When Hannah discovers that CJ plans on skipping out on their mutual friends' wedding, she knows he's been lying to her about his recovery-and determines to give him the same stubborn encouragement he's given her by forcing him to attend.But when a blizzard detours them, and worse, they're run off the road, they'll have to face their darkest fears to survive. A Christmas story about the miracles that happen when the weather outside becomes frightful. Note: If you picked up this title in the Candy Cane Kisses Christmas Anthology, this is an extended version! Discover how CJ and Hannah fell in love...and continue their story after the storm is over!"
Download or read book Smoke Patrol written by Montgomery M Atwater and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Air Service Chief Crawford informed the second-year foresters that recruits were wanted for the newly formed Smokejumper School, Hank Winton and his buddy Jim Dade grabbed at the chance. Fighting forest blazes by parachute had never before been attempted on a mass scale, and the two young men looked forward eagerly to the adventures they knew were in store for them. And the Air Service was to give them all they had bargained for, and more! There were thrills aplenty - but there were also arduous weeks of training. Hank and Jim understood from the start that there would be incredible hours of calisthenics; training on the obstacle course, the landing pit, jump tower and airplane 'mock up'. Learning to be smokejumpers, they knew, meant acquiring the agility and perfect coordination that were basic for their work. But not even Hank, a senator's son, knew how closely the very existence of their beloved parachute unit was threatened by Senator Thomas Donahue - nor did he dream of the ironic climax that was to affect the lives of the smokejumpers as well as the senator's happiness. You'll live with Hank Winton and Jim Dade through every action-packed moment of their training, from the first day's exhausting tests of endurance to the final dramatic race against the enemy - forest fire. SMOKE PATROL is a clearly drawn picture of a distinguished branch of the Forest Service, as well as an adventure story that will live in the memory of all who read it.
Download or read book The Divide written by Nicholas Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a murder suspect's body is found frozen in the ice of a remote mountain creek, the subsequent investigation poses unsettling questions about how a promising young woman from a loving family could engage in acts of killing and ecoterrorism. Reprint.
