California, Firefighters

"This Is Not Rehabilitation This Is Slave Labor": People Are Shocked That Incarcerated Firefighters In California Are Paid As Little As $6 A Day
"It's really important that people remember they are people just like us and are doing a very important and dangerous job."
Kim Kardashian Pushes For Incarcerated Firefighters To Be Paid More Amid LA Blazes
Kardashian called incarcerated firefighters "heroes" as she asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to lift wages for those "risking their life to save our lives and homes."
Incarcerated Firefighters Battle California Blazes for Low Pay, Redemption
Roughly 30 percent of firefighters battling the California wildfires are incarcerated, earning time off their sentences and up to $26.90 per day.
Kim Kardashian calls for pay raise for incarcerated firefighters: 'I see them as heroes'
Kim Kardashian is calling for a pay raise for incarcerated firefighters, saying the "heroes" get "paid almost nothing" for risking their lives.
Kim Kardashian Advocates for Incarcerated Firefighters Amid the California Wildfires
Aside from previously announced donations to those affected by the wildfires, Kardashian is calling on California Governor Gavin Newsom to raise incarcerated firefighters' wages "to a rate [that] honors a human being risking their life to save our lives and homes."
Why Incarcerated Firefighters Are Battling the L.A. Wildfires
As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel behind structures to slow fire spread,” CDCR told TIME in an emailed statement. This includes 110 members of a support staff helping the firefighters.
Kim Kardashian wants inmate firefighter raises. A California lawmaker agrees.
As wildfires continue to scorch the Los Angeles area, a California state lawmaker is leading a push to give incarcerated firefighters pay raises — including those who are battling blazes for as little as $30 per day.
Video: Danny Trejo Calls Out Kim Kardashian’s Push to Increase Inmate Firefighter Pay
Danny Trejo Calls Out Kim Kardashian’s Push to Increase Inmate Firefighter Pay Danny Trejo slams Kim Kardashian for advocating for increased wages for incarcerated firefighters amid the Los Angeles fires in an interview with TMZ.
Kim Kardashian praises incarcerated firefighters battling LA wildfires
Kim Kardashian has commended an interview spotlighting incarcerated firefighters, drawing attention to their role amid the ongoing LA wildfires. The fires destroyed around 12,000 homes, businesses, schools and other structures,
The Incarcerated Firefighters Battling the L.A. Wildfires
California’s incarcerated firefighters battle wildfires for minimal pay. WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon joins one crew on the Los ...
Kim Kardashian Advocates for Incarcerated Firefighters’ Pay Raise as Fires Devastate L.A.
Kim Kardashian is again leaping to defend the incarcerated and those she sees as unjustly treated by the U.S. government, ...
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What it’s like to be an incarcerated firefighter
Eddie Herrera, a formerly incarcerated firefighter, talks about the job and how he sees what’s happening in Los Angeles.
Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler’s Warning
We continue our coverage of the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have killed at least 24 people as of ...
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Incarcerated firefighters work to put out LA wildfires
In California, hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to put out the fires that have destroyed more than 40,000 ...
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Nearly 800 prisoners now helping to battle Los Angeles fires
They are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, plus $1 for active emergencies. As firefighters work to contain the slew of brush fires spreading across Los Angeles County, among the emergency ...
‘We Need Everyone’: How Two Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters Are Building a Movement
This story originally published in 2022, but has been updated to reflect the recent fires ravaging neighborhoods across Los ...
Over 1,000 prison inmates risking their lives fighting LA wildfires - for just 91p an hour
Fire crews are being lent a unique hand in trying to slow the blazes tearing through Los Angeles - California's Inmate ...