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| Inmates join firefighters on front lines of wildfires |
| By news10.net- Emily Pritchard |
| Published: 08/07/2015 |
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LAKE COUNTY – Wildfires continue to burn across the state of California and that means firefighters are working around the clock. At the Rocky Fire, hundreds of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmates are also on the front lines battling the blaze. Those inmate firefighters are from at Konocti Camp, which houses 110 male inmates. The low level offenders live there year round. About 85 percent of them fight fires, while 15 percent do other jobs around the camp, including: cooking, welding, automotive work and even waste water treatment. Inmate Shane Thompson said he didn’t know much about fighting flames until coming to the camp. “Everyone goes out, grabs their tool, and hook line order, and they go up the mountain, usually, and fight the fire, cut line,” Thompson said. Read More. |
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