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- noun Plural form of
smokejumper .
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Examples
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The people who do this are called smokejumpers, and the movie tells us that in the United States there are only 300 men and women awesome enough to be trained in this art.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Arts & Entertainment By ERIC D. SNIDER / FILM.COM 2010
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Clara's love interest, a retired smokejumper named Paul, doesn't hesitate to recount old fire stories and tells Clara that smokejumpers live life the way it's meant to be lived -- as an adventure.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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In the fire hierarchy of toughness, Hotshots sit directly below smokejumpers.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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Clara's love interest, a retired smokejumper named Paul, doesn't hesitate to recount old fire stories and tells Clara that smokejumpers live life the way it's meant to be lived -- as an adventure.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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In the fire hierarchy of toughness, Hotshots sit directly below smokejumpers.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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The public is right on both counts, which is why White House smokejumpers have been dispatched to put out this fire as the final votes approach.
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The public is right on both counts, which is why White House smokejumpers have been dispatched to put out this fire as the final votes approach.
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The public is right on both counts, which is why White House smokejumpers have been dispatched to put out this fire as the final votes approach.
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Aerial operations provide detection and monitoring services, and direct suppression resources (i.e., water and retardant drops, transport of ground personnel and smokejumpers).
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Thirteen young smokejumpers, some of them still in their teens, were overrun by a blow-up fire that day.
ESCAPE FIRES Maggie Jochild 2007
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