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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.
CDCR operates 35 so-called fire camps across 25 different California counties, employing approximately 1,870 incarcerated people. Two of the camps are for incarcerated women.
The incarcerated firefighters have been drawn from among the 35 conservation fire camps run by the state, minimum-security facilities where inmates serve their time and receive training. Two of ...
MORE: California fires live updates: 5,000 structures destroyed in historic Palisades Fire "CDCR Fire Camp Program firefighters are proud to be embedded with CAL FIRE personnel to protect lives ...
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 often hot weather conditions from spring through late autumn that can produce moderate to severe wildfires.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, colloquially known as Cal Fire, [3] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California. It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state ...
The practice isn’t new; California has been using inmate firefighters since as far back as 1915, and began a fire camp program to properly train the inmates in firefighting methods began in 1946 ...
The Northern California Geographic Coordination Center (commonly called 'North Ops') forecast stated that "Confidence is moderate to high for an early start to the significant large fire season." [12] In Northern California, peak fire season begins in the early summer (June–July) and runs until late fall, varying year to year.