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02954aim a22004095a 4500 001 9A951876D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 003 SILO 005 20200806010102 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160715s2015 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 0062395610 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062395610 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11587336 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Ramos, Jason A., $e author. 245 10 $a Smokejumper : $b a memoir by one of America's most select airborne firefighters $h [electronic resource] / $c Jason A. Ramos and Julian Smith. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b HarperAudio, $c 2015. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 27 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Ned Vaughn. 520 $a A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes. Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year - record drought conditions, decades of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment of residential housing into the wilderness have combined to create a powder keg that threatens millions of acres and thousands of lives every year. One select group of men and women are part of America's front-line defense: smokejumpers. The smokejumper program operates through both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Though they are tremendously skilled and only highly experienced and able wildland firefighters are accepted into the training program, being a smokejumper remains an art that can only be learned on the job. Forest fires often behave in unpredictable ways: spreading almost instantaneously, shooting downhill behind a stiff tailwind, or even flowing like a liquid. In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes readers into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping's remarkable history, and explains why their services are more essential than ever before. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Ramos, Jason A. 650 0 $a Smokejumpers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Smokejumping $z United States. 700 1 $a Smith, Julian, $d 1972- $e author. 700 1 $a Vaughn, Ned, $d 1964- $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11587336?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062395610_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20200806022057.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A951876D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search