Of the 9,400 firefighters battling the 240,000-acre California wildfires that have already killed more than 65 people and incinerated more than 12,000 structures, one group is at particular risk. It’s not the location of their deployment that makes them vulnerable, nor their levels of physical fitness. Roughly 1,500 prison inmates have stepped up in the last 24 hours to combat the fires as part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) volunteer firefighting program, called the Conservation Camp Program.
Inmates Fighting California Wildfires Are More Likely To Get Hurt, Records Show
Abby Vesoulis, Time
Fri, 11/16/2018 - 5:40pm
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