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| For $2 a Day, Female Inmates Help Douse Trail Fire |
| By timesofsandiego.com- Ken Stone |
| Published: 07/15/2014 |
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Two crews of a dozen young women each hiked toward Kwaay Paay Peak on Sunday in Mission Trails Regional Park, carrying chainsaws and shovels. They were paid $2 a day, and grateful. Hailing from Cal Fire’s Rainbow Conservation Camp near Warner Springs, the female firefighters were a part of a decades-old program that saves California taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year. They are prison inmates. “It is dangerous duty,” says Bill Sessa, a Sacramento spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “When you cut a fire line, it has to be completely clean. Each person on crew has a specific assignment,” led by the chainsaw user and followed by others who clear fire lines in sometimes rugged territory. Read More. |
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