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Two Hundred and Fifty Feet up with Only a Rope to Get Down

May 23, 2012 Keith Riggs, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

Rappellers are firefighters who are delivered to remote and inaccessible wildfires by means of dropping down a rope from helicopters hovering 250 feet high. Earlier this month over 50 veteran Forest Service rappellers throughout the West prepared for a new fire season with training and...

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