The daring life of a smokejumper
Training for this elite group of parachuting firefighters is just as grueling as you'd imagine
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Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.
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