Smokey Bear turns 78 and you can join in on a celebration happening Tuesday. From 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, a virtual birthday party will be held for Smokey on a live stream. The party will be hosted by PBS host Darley Newman and representatives from the U.S. Forest Service. Smokey was born Aug. 9, 1944, as a campaign to prevent forest fires but the real Smokey came to be six years later. In the spring of 1950, a young bear cub was found alive after being caught and badly burned while taking shelter up in a tree in a...