As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia.
California has a first-in-the-nation law and a $30 million training program both aimed at trying to help former inmate firefighters turn pro after they are released from prison.
It s been a learning curve to educate judges about the law and get the corrections department to speed up certifying to the court that inmates have served as firefighters.
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