Higgins Ridge
Special | 57m 18s | Video has closed captioning.
The U.S. Forest Service sent 20 of its most elite firefighters - smokejumpers - to parachute into the Idaho wilderness to put out a wildfire burning on a mountain ridge. What looked like a routine fire from the air became a different story on the ground, as wind fueled the blaze into a blowup. The smokejumpers pivoted from battling the fire to fighting for their lives as the fire surrounded them.
Aired: 01/30/23
