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Female inmate firefighters featured in movie Did anyone see “Firelight”, the TV movie Sunday night on ABC about inmates at an all-female correctional facility who become members of a wildland firefighting hand crew? I missed it, but Cuba Gooding played a counselor who talks a group of incarcerated women … Continue reading ? Wildfire Today - News and commentary about wildland fire
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Training for veterans to be become wildland firefighters The programs that Wildfire Today told you about a year ago that train military veterans to become wildland firefighters appear to be increasing and are now grouped into a new ... Read Post

“Fire Crew” — a new book about wildland firefighting Ben Walters, a self-described “reformed party animal, former firefighter, and former school teacher” has published a book about fighting wildfires with the Bureau of Land Manageme... Read Post

Inmate firefighter dies after falling ill on California fire The 2,681-acre Buck Fire south of Hemet, California, was fully contained on Friday morning, and the North County Times reported that an inmate firefighter died yesterday a... Read Post