Smokey Bear turns 80, is still spreading fire safety messages today
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Smokey Bear, the beloved symbol of the U.S. Forest Service, turns 80 years old on August 9, 2024. He's been warning about forest fires and wildfires in the great outdoors for eight decades.
A park ranger in the 1940s looks at drawings of Smokey Bear. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) President Harry S. Truman receives a Smokey Bear sign from U.S. Forest Service Chief Lyle F. Watts in the Oval Office, 1949. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Smokey Bear is flown to Washington, D.C., after his rescue from a forest fire in New Mexico in 1950. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Smokey Bear was named an honorary member of the Washington Fire Department in October 1950. (Getty Images) Smokey Bear and a group of Maryland Girl Scouts walk together outside the U.S. Capitol in 1954 after the Girl Scouts of America pledged their help in preventing man-made forest fires. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Smokey the Bear, Flathead chief Paul Charlo, his wife and young Allen Thompson pose together in Montana in 1956 to promote the prevention of man-made forest fires. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) A Smokey Bear balloon is seen in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1966. (NBCU Photo Bank) A Smokey Bear statue stands tall in International Falls, Minnesota, as seen in 1967. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Young Miss Fire Prevention and Smokey Bear appear at the Indianapolis International Speedway to promote fire safety in the 1970s. (Shepard Sherbell/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Smokey Bear makes a trip to Sydney, Australia, in 1977 to promote fire safety. (Antony Matheus Linsen/Fairfax Media via Getty Images) Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl join U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, left, and U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale N. Bosworth to celebrate the U.S. Forest Service's 100th birthday in 2005. (Stephanie Saraceno/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) A Smokey Bear balloon is seen in the 2023 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Macy's, Inc.) Smokey Bear and Darci Drinkwater of the U.S. Forest Service visit the White House on Aug. 6, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
His message of fire prevention in the great outdoors is just as important as it was 80 years ago, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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