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TIL in 1949, 15 ‘smokejumpers’ were parachuted in to deal with the Mann Gulch wildfire, but they soon had to run for their lives. Only 3 survived, one of whom did so by lighting his own escape fire, to give him a charred patch to enter, so that the main fire went right around him

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