Jaime Lowe
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 302 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California's wildfires"--
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. Lowe has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program....