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Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Dropping in with the smokejumpers
Description: As wildfires prove to be a growing threat in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is furthering its preventative and response measures.
The USDA’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy aims to safeguard communities by increasing fuel treatments, promoting community readiness and supporting post-fire recovery and restoration. An integral part of this plan is the Smokejumpers, an elite group of firefighters who bail out of planes into remote fires. The forest service has about 320 smokejumpers that work from seven bases, and The Associated Press was given access to the Missoula, Montana location.
“Smokejumping was created to be able...