Smoke Jumpers text structure

Which sentence from the passage was a simile

What is the problem presented? The smoke jumpers parachute into an area to fight fires with nothing but a parachute and cannot be reached by vehicle.

What sentence is a possible solution to the problem on the last slide?

The boxes contain everything they

need for living and for fighting fire for three days:

chain saws, shovels, Pulaskis (part ax and part hoe),

first-aid kits, food, and water. If they have to stay

longer, more supplies will be dropped in. The jumpers

unpack and get to work.

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According to this sentence, Why are smoke jumpers sent to fight fires?

But why not reach the fire from the

ground? Why jump into it? “There is a rule

that says the closest available resources must

respond to a fire. That’s often the

smokejumpers,” says Withen. A fire truck

thirty miles away from a wildfire could take

an hour or more to reach the blaze. Airplanes

are much faster. “Even if we are one hundred

miles away, we can be working on that fire

within thirty-five minutes,” says Withen.