The lack of respiratory protection is a problem that has been decimating wildland firefighters’ health for years. Despite new efforts following the Camp Fire, there are still no respirators on ...

The long-running initiative – officially known as the Conservation (Fire) Camp Program – is operated ... such as reducing vegetation that could fuel a wildland fire, and during an emergency ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban ...

Smoke from the wildland ... Fire — scorched 192,036 acres in Siskiyou County, Cal Fire said. According to Cal Fire, these are the five largest wildfires in California history: 2018’s Camp ...

For many Californians, the destruction of entire neighborhoods by wildfires evokes memories of the devastating 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.

County officials told The Post that they had put five engines, a dozer team, and an additional wildland hand crew at their camp in the hills above central Malibu, near where a fire had ravaged ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Conservation (Fire) Camp Program allows incarcerated ... International Association of Wildland Fire's website, said his ...

“Fire camp firefighters have been working around ... such as opportunities with state or federal wildland agencies, like Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service. It also helps pave the way for ...

But when the fires are finally out, he won't be going back to his family: He'll be returning to the prison "fire camp" where he's ... inmates can become certified wildland firefighters.

Read More: How to Help Victims of the Los Angeles Wildfires The incarcerated firefighters are a part of the Conservation (Fire) Camp Program ... in forestry and wildland firefighting.