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Firefighting Shovel, Siberia, Russia, 2001

"A stick in time: After quickly turning a sapling into a shovel handle, one firefighter attacks with sand while another beats the flame with birch branches. If smokejumpers kill a fire quickly, it adds a bonus to their monthly hundred-dollar pay."

—From "Russian Smokejumpers," August 2002, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Mark Thiessen

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