Every day, for about a month, the students run and jump to get ready for the real fires.
All of the firefighters know how dangerous the job is. This memorial is for the many brave firefighters who have died fighting wildfires.
Jumping from a plane is scary. But the firefighters know they're doing important work.
Fighting forest fires is important for nature and for people. Small forest fires can be good. They burn away dead plants and help new plants grow. They make the forest a better place for animals to live. But if a forest fire is too big, it can become dangerous for people who live nearby. It is a smokejumper's job to stop that from happening.
When a wildfire happens deep in the forests, smokejumpers are the only people that can get to it. Each smokejumper team must learn to work as a team, as well as with other teams. In the middle of a wildfire, each person has to know exactly what to do.