Smokejumpers by Mike McMillan

Extraction by helicopter: Crews wait their turn when its time to leave this 1996 interior Alaska wildfire. Mike McMillan spotfireimages.com

Murry A. Taylor has been a smokejumper since 1965. He divides his time between Alaska and northern California. Jumping Fire is his first book. Taylor's e-mail address is: murrytay@sisqtel.net • All photographs by Mike McMillan/Spotfire Images • Site by Visual Contact