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 ...
Two California Conservation Corps (CCC) crews from the Tahoe region are currently providing post-fire mitigation efforts in ...
Travis Barker recently met with a group of incarcerated firefighters that are working to extinguish the wildfires that are ...
The imprisoned firefighters volunteer to participate in CDCR's Conservation ... day served on a fire crew. Camp participants are eligible for employment with Cal Fire once they have served ...
When deployed, those firefighters earn from $5.80 to $10.24 a day, depending on experience, and an extra $1 an hour during active wildfires, according to the corrections department. That means the ...
But when the fires are finally out, he won't be going back to his family: He'll be returning to the prison "fire camp" where he's ... and toxic smoke - to help Cal Fire battle the Eaton and ...