Both the Smokey Bear character and the real life Smokey hail from Washington, D.C. In 1950, an orphaned bear cub was rescued from a wildfire in New Mexico and brought to Washington to live at the ...

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A real-life version of Smokey Bear was found burnt and clinging to a tree in 1950 in Capitan. He was rescued and lived the rest of his days at the National Zoo in Washington. After Smokey’s ...