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Smokejumers worldwide (this text was copied over from Smokejumpers article on March 20th, 2024)
'Smokejumpers are employed by the Russian Federation, United States (namely the United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management), and Canada (in British Columbia).'

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Smokejumpers are employed by the Russian Federation, United States (namely the United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management), and Canada (in British Columbia).

In Canada, smokejumpers employed by the British Columbia Wildfire Service. Here, there are three classes of initial response firefighters; initial attack crews, rapattack crews (refers to firefighters who repel from aircraft into wildfires), and parattack crews (smokejumpers). The British Columbia Wildfire Service houses roughly 60 smokejumpers yearly which are based out of the Prince George Fire Center.

In Russia, smokejumpers are both firefighters who parachute and/or repel into fires. They work for the Aerial Forest Protection Service, or Avialesookhrana. This agency represents the largest cohort of smokejumpers worldwide, employing up to 4000 protects 2 billion acres (or 800 million hectares) of land across 11 different time zones which makes them the primary defences for half of Russia's wildland. Smokejumpers are located at 340 Avialsookhrana bases and dispatched in groups of differing sizes according to the situation at hand. Repelling crews consist of a maximum of 20 firefighters, while parachuting teams are usually made up of five or six.

Each summer Avialesookhrana's firefighters face the Herculean task of containing fires across 2 billion acres (800 million hectares) of the largest coniferous forest in the world. Though regional forestry offices help fight fires in more populated areas, smokejumpers—housed in 340 bases across the country—are the sole defense for half of Russia's territory, flying to fires in crews of five or six when parachuting from An-2 biplanes and in groups of up to 20 when rappelling from the Mi-8 helicopters.