"Smoke Jumpers" by Nels Jorgensen

To jump from hundreds of feet to fight a raging inferno is not everyone's idea of a pleasant occupation.

But to Rick Harding, who had trained as a "smoke jumper" - the parachute firemen of the United States Forest Patrol - the work gives the excitement he craves and the satisfaction of knowing that he is doing a worthwhile job, protecting the valuable forest land from the greatest enemy - fire!