A Cold Freezin Night - 6
Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.
2010 / Nan Floyd / TCF, USA

Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.
Produced for the 2010 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds.
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Nan Floyd has been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes to fight forest fires the past 11 years. Floyd lives most of the time in Winthrop, Washington, but spends many winter nights running gravel roads in Colorado.
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