As brush fires continue to spread across Los Angeles County, more than 1,000 prisoners, working as "incarcerated firefighters," are among the emergency responders fighting the blazes, the California ...
The role of inmate firefighters is in the spotlight as crews continue to battle the blazes in Southern California.
Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do ...
Nearly 950 inmates are removing timber and brush in an attempt to slow the spread of the wildfires in the Los Angeles area, ...
As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ... than 55 square miles across the Los Angeles area. At least 10 people are ...
By Cayla Mihalovich, CalMatters About 800 incarcerated firefighters are battling the unprecedented fires raging across ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters scrambled Sunday ... lines and remove fuel to slow fire spread,” according to an update from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Though the ...
"It's really important that people remember they are people just like us and are doing a very important and dangerous job." ...
As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...
The wildfires that have taken over Los Angeles are still active, but in the midst of it all, John Legend took some time to ...
Tens of thousands of people ordered to flee their homes as wildfires tore through Los Angeles were told Thursday ... one of ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After making some progress battling wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people in the Los Angeles area, firefighters prepared for a return of ...