Smokejumpers: Into fire with California's elite firefighters - BBC News 

No I can not imagine. I'm 14 years old bruh

@@kylewalker5770 a firemen isn’t a very demanding job don’t worry you can do it

Kyle Walker that’s not the attitude my guy

Army Airborne firefighter

Yeah lol why not?

Damn bro, you're so cool. Did you like jump out of planes for the army or something

@@JeremiahKidwell that's what paratroopers do...

A good jumper would have slipped away from that tree at the end.

@@JeremiahKidwell No he drove a boat

Just complete airborne school didn’t know firefighters had something like this

Michael Difani never heard of fire jumpers in UK!

Montana for lifes

Had four kids and is retired and very content with his life. 😂

Michael Difani I would do that but I just can’t handle working for the government.

@@irenedavo3768 we don't need them, we are smaller than most States! Plus we don't have any significant wilderness left - 70 million people vs California which is like 3 states in one with 45million people. Most US states are not that well populated.

Fly them to straya now

@@hekk_u there r american fire fighters here already helping out

Cowboy Animal call me the next time you do this 😂

Watch out for those ceiling fans

"Elite FF" my ass These firefighters can't do shit they are pathetic Actually its mostly the democrats that cause that level of uselessness

Crazychipmunk 356 She's basically a dude...sooo

I'm sure they're all mature enough to prefer it that way.

😂👍🏻

Crazychipmunk 356 I’m sure there are some firefighters that put her fire out alright

That last thing in the world you want to be thinking about when your jumping from a plane to fight a fire is pussy, she's doing all them a favor if you think about it.

Frank Tibbitts apart from the fact women can’t do stuff as good as men

@Bigfoot SAS, those women probably have more testosterone than you do.

@@bigfootsas4920 Generally men are stronger but I still gotta give props to the women in this field. Equal standards? As long as she can reach those standards, great.

jim crawford You do it tough guy.

jim crawford idiot

He was talking about it in the sense that it’s more dangerous jumping that low

In terms of skydiving the static jump that they do is 1500 ft where as recreational sky diver jump at 10,000 ft.

@@tylernewell9650 holy shit!

@@tylernewell9650 Actually you can do static line- freefall at any height....and usually your first civy jumps are static line-5000'.

@@jedidiah5131 Except that in the video they specifically say the smoke jumper jump at 1500 ft meaning very low compared to civvies. Most freewill jumps recreationally is done between 10,000 and 14,000ft can it be ant height sure, but thats not the normal.

Lol

Halo there, how're you doin'?

jim crawford umm, why?

@@gunslinger1824 its feminine

jim crawford this job isn't exactly gay. It requires pretty big balls

jim crawford you must be hella insecure of yourself lol

They are pussies

Guys and gal*, only one female.

@@jimcrawford3259 that bait is too obvious

Fire has been around long before humans and trees still exist. Firefighters aren't needed.

rizzonator18 They're needed when it's your house and you inside of it

Dude it's not going anywhere because of wildfires... Burnt out forest will be a lot greener in a year than it was before the fire. Just a natural thing.

they are needed when the wildfire is caused by an arsonist or on accident by a person.

A. Salgado chances are he didn't actually go for it or tried and realized not everybody can do it.

DoLoMyte000 You gotta have balls of steel to do this. You ever see what happens when the fire flashes up in the forest while they're down there? it's like a 40 foot tidal wave of flames that burn you alive

yeah i understand, i no longer have desire to do that. I became a respiratory therapist after my jumping days instead.

DoLoMyte000 - just saw your comment. I'm an RT also but wanted to to this out of northern Nevada years ago. What state are you in?

He already haD balls of steel as a paratrooper.....

strangely, they dont seem to want ex military!

Lol click in only to find it's six years ago...

These guys would probably complain about a 9-5 too. That's why they aren't working those jobs

Or these guys are just desperate for a job and this was the only job that they would probably take them in?

Hytale Theatre the only job they'd take them for is elite fire fighter? Think again.

You can make 100k a year with the overtime pay. Pay starts at $18 as a rookie, 25% increase when you're on a fire, anything over 8 hours is paid at 25%+time n half. The average pay for a 5 year employee is $27hr before the 25% or overtime. 70 hours in 1 week is nearly $3,000.

Yes bc most 9-5 jobs are boring as fk compared to this.

Well I think the people who defend this great nation called United States of America is true hero's

@@southernwulf530 That's cool

Step brother zone i hope 😉

Yeah and this isn't even alabama😒

Yikes, that one person who had a crush on her? He finna jump without a parachute soon after he hears that (●__●)

And you just stole the top comment, 0 for effort.

Lol I thought the same thing

It is probably a "speed ball" like the type used in the military. The cargo is probably packed in a way so it can take a beating on impact. They are used a lot because they give you a lot more accuracy and control on where they land. I doubt the 3:30 package is a fully assembled saw but collapsed in someway. It could also be something completely different as well from the narrative.

Jared Maxwell I

I thought the same.

It isn't a chute it's supposed to make sure it hits the right place

Saturation diver medics amigo, check it out!

Smokejunpers are not part of a fire department do some research

Chase that dude wanted to hit the “jump point” so bad that he just slammed into it

You do land relatively hard under a round canopy, equivalent to jumping from a wall a few feet high. Jumpers are taught to absorb the impact by doing a 'PLF' or parachute landing fall - basically a roll that gradually takes the energy out of the impact along the side of your body from the feet on up. You can see that landing roll from his point of view. Unless you're jumping a specialised type of parachute that allows you to flare it and thus slow down just before your feet touch, it would be a mistake to try and stand up a landing under a round canopy - it's going to hurt, and you're likely to injure yourself.

@@miked1869 THIS. which is why military chutes lands harder than commercial chutes.... it all lies in the design

4:20 this is more painful landing

@Kurt Erickson hitting the trees seems do not hurt with those clothes huh?

I imagine that they want to be ready for ANY landing zone. You dont always have the convenience of a clearing that large when you're out of training. Just like the military says, "train like you fight"

bootht99 Areas with fire are not the best for helicopters since they're affected by thermal updrafts a lot more

Aye. Fire creates its own weather. Rotary wing in those conditions isn't ideal for insertion. There ARE heli-rappeling units, but they're dropped farther from incidents than SJs.

I guess i'm really only familiar with wildland fire fighting methods in Canadas boreal forest, where the topography is relatively flat, lots of muskeg, rivers and lakes. If the updrafts are ever so strong that you can't drop off an initial attack crew, the fire has developed to the point where ground crews can do little.

True. I know Yankee jumpers assist in the Canadian Rockies because of the adjoined Glacier / Waterton Parks, but not sure about the lakelands or prairies. even in the States, those areas are managed largely by State DNRC and IHC crews. The jumpers, especially those stationed here in Missoula Montana, tend to be inserted into high elevation Wilderness incidents to supplement Type-II IA crews raised from the local District.

Watching this as the LNU lightning complex fire tears up CA

Ya didnt think paratroopers could steer I was curious when I saw the same design with steering lines, still hit a tree though. Smh

Thank you for your service

That's why they jump at 1500, lots of time for your reserve to open....no one would jump out of a plane knowing their reserve will never deploy in time to save them.

For those who don't know, most static line jumps are at 1000' and at night....

In the Army we can jump as low as 600 feet, reserve only needs about 200 feet of room to open above ground. Airborne all the way!

ChrisAvalon in the army we jumped at 1200

@@serg890 Were all American/ until the guns the foe are still.

they are the people who failed training camp...

Because they pretend to be like a military unit. And because of us forest services fire practices actually have done some harm in some situations.

And the end. lol!

because they are using old tech instead of modern stearble parachutes got to love government bs

SWolf it is steerable you can see him turning. And those parachutes are a little lighter a little more compact and cheaper

@@shadowsrwolf the round canopies are steerable - it's just that they have very little forward drive. That makes for limited manoeuvering and relatively hard landings, but also less room for mistakes. Modern 'square' canopies are fantastic but are more prone to malfunction, both on opening and in flight during unpredictable wind conditions such as the updrafts caused by a fire. Round canopies are better suited to low-altitude exits, like the 1,500 feet being demonstrated here.

@@miked1869 drinking the koolaid i see