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Hundreds of incarcerated inmates help fight Gifford Fire

Of the nearly 5,000 personnel who were assigned to the Gifford Fire, 300 of them were incarcerated inmates voluntarily doing the same dangerous work expected of any firefighter. That’s what California Incident Management Team 8 Public Information Officer Rich Eagan said after observing them working during the 131,000-acre blaze in SLO and Santa Barbara counties […]