EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Smokey ... real-life Smokey Bear was found burned and clinging to a tree near Capitan after a large fire in 1950. The real-life Smokey was later sent to the National Zoo ...

Taking the name Smokey Bear, this cub became the living symbol of wildfire prevention. He spent the next 25 years at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., serving as an ambassador for wildfire ...