"As many as 20 firefighters can rappel to a fire from a turbo-powered Mi-8 helicopter, but [Russian Smokejumpers] haven't forgotten their roots. They also parachute from decades-old biplanes, much as they did when they pioneered smoke-jumping in the 1930s."
—From "Russian Smokejumpers," August 2002, National Geographic magazine
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