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  2. California Conservation Camp Program - Wikipedia

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    In response to firefighter labor shortages during World War II, the Rainbow Conservation Camp was established as the first permanent fire camp, in 1946. It was modeled after New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps camps. The program grew to 16 camps throughout California in the 40s and 50s, including the first youth camps.

  3. California’s Mountain Fire among many fought with ... - AOL

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    The program includes 35 fire camps located across 25 counties in California, according to the CDCR. Fire camp participants work as hand crews to help CAL FIRE and LAC FIRE contain fires across the ...

  4. List of California wildfires - Wikipedia

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    Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...

  5. List of California fire departments - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Fire Department on the scene of a fire in the Bradbury Building, Downtown Los Angeles in 1947 The Newport Beach Fire Department's Engine 63 at the training facility in Newport Beach Fire Station#1 of the Riverside Fire Department, circa 1910, at the corner of 8th and Lime Streets (8th Street is now University Avenue) The San Francisco Fire Department's Fireboat Guardian stands ...

  6. Incarceration in California - Wikipedia

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    The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) runs 44 conservation camps (also known as fire camps) jointly with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The conservation camp program mission is to "support state, local and federal government agencies ...

  7. California inmates fight wildfires — but if prisons can’t ...

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    In January 2010, close to 4,000 people lived in California’s fire camps. As of early May, only 1,867 of the camps’ beds were filled. Sentencing reforms in the past two decades, including ...

  8. List of town and city fires - Wikipedia

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    1253 – Great Fire of Utrecht, the Netherlands, lasted for 9 days and destroyed much of the city. 1276 – Third Fire of Lübeck, Germany, results in a comprehensive fire safety system. This was the last major fire in the city before bombing of WW II. 1327 – Fire of Munich, Germany, destroys one-third of the city, 30 deaths.

  9. Proposed California law would make it easier for former ... - AOL

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    OAKLAND, Calif.—Among the thousands of firefighters battling the wildfires scorching the state are volunteer inmates who work alongside them in the smoke and heat. This decades-old system would ...