Name: Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California'S Wildfires
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Author: Lowe, Jaime
ISBN: 9781250849212

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Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California'S Wildfires

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jaime Lowe

Publisher

Picador

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 12.4 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781250849212

Synopsis "Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California'S Wildfires "

A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that's not training for flames. That's not live fire. California's fire season gets hotter, longer, and more extreme every year -- fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California's blazes every year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains, family and friends, correctional officers, and camp commanders. The result is a rare, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate -- a story that encompasses California's underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, and historical injustice, but also draws on deeply personal histories, relationships, desires, frustrations, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. Lowe's reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California's Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line, while imprisoned, to save a state in peril.

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