Among the crews that responded, and continue to, were more than 1,000 incarcerated firefighters paid as little as $5.80 each ...

While McKinney, Sevilla and Almanza perform all the same duties as the other first responders, they're not professional firefighters. The trio are incarcerated at Fenner Canyon Conservation Camp 41, a ...

As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel behind structures to slow fire spread,” CDCR told TIME in an emailed ...

More than a thousand incarcerated firefighters helped beat back the LA blazes. This is what you should know about their work.

By Alexis Alvarez, Feb. 4, 2025 The voluntary and selective Conservation (Fire) Camp program, which sent out more than 1,000 prisoners to the frontlines of the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires, often ...

Incarcerated firefighters can have years of experience by the time they're released. But getting a job in the field is still difficult.

Slavery was abolished in 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment, but abolition contained an intentional loophole. It ...

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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) classifies fire camp participation as voluntary, LSPC ...