Jaime Lowe
Author
Language
English
Description
A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires for less than a dollar an hour
On February 23, 2016, Shawna Lynn Jones stepped into the brush to fight a wildfire that had consumed ten acres of terrain on a steep ridge in Malibu. Jones carried fifty pounds of equipment and a chainsaw to help contain the blaze. As she fired up her saw, the earth gave way under her feet and a rock fell from above and...