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Author Lowe, Jaime, 1976- author.

Title Breathing fire : female inmate firefighters on the front lines of California's wildfires / Jaime Lowe.

Publication Info. New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  363.3709 LOW    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  363.37 LOWE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  363.3709 LOWE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 302 pages : map ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-287) and index.
Summary "A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California's wildfires"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Shawna Lynn Jones and the women of Crew 13-3 -- "The girls in oranges hiking the mountain" -- The Golden State of incarceration -- Release -- Epilogue.
Summary 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. Speaking to captains, family and friends, correctional officers, and camp commanders, she provides an illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate. In doing so, she encompasses California's underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, historical injustice, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Women fire fighters -- California.
Women prisoners -- California.
Wildfires -- California.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Fire & Emergency Services.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology.
Wildfires. (OCoLC)fst01175216
Women fire fighters. (OCoLC)fst01177679
Women prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01178398
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
ISBN 9780374116187 hardcover
0374116180 hardcover
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