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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 underl

Who reads Breathing fire : female inmate firefighters on the front lines of California's wildfires?

Author

Jaime Lowe

Publisher

MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374721923

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.3 / 5 (92 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14