Jason A. Ramos

Jason A. Ramos has devoted twenty-six years of his life to the fire service. He began his career at age seventeen as a volunteer with the Riverside County Fire Department, then progressed to wildland firefighting in Southern California. Now a smokejumper in his sixteenth season, he is based in Winthrop, Washington, at the North Cascades Smokejumper Base, the birthplace of smokejumping.