To the editor: If the Fireplace Act passes, hundreds of present fireplace camp inmates educated in the very best practices in fireplace prevention and lively abatement will full their incarceration with hope for significant employment wherever in our nation (“Under Fire Act, inmate firefighters could have a new pipeline to employment,” Could 27).
In my seven years as chaplain to Fireplace Camp 13 in Malibu, I witnessed a whole bunch of girls turn into empowered and renewed whereas defending our forests, mountains and houses. They have been the primary responders to the airplane crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his daughter and pals. They cleared brush and handled the location respectfully and sorrowfully. These girls confronted the Palisades and Eaton fires for us.
With our gratitude, let these educated firefighters share their braveness and abilities wherever within the USA.
Nan Cano, Westlake Village
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To the editor: I applaud Reps. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) and Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) for introducing a invoice to fund, mentor and guarantee long-term employment for former inmate firefighters. Years in the past, I used to be appalled to learn the way little we pay firefighters, and even much less to inmates who additionally put their lives on the road combating fires. Andony Corleto and different former inmates who’ve confirmed their mettle must be inspired and helped towards a firefighter profession. We have to put together all inmates to rejoin society with the abilities to make a good residing.
My grandfather, who was a jail warden in Campeche, Mexico, approach again within the Nineteen Thirties, had prisoners study to weave hammocks and opened a prison-run bakery. They did so effectively that a number of the prisoners’ wives requested my grandfather to maintain them in jail past their sentences — they made extra money there than that they had ever made! Let’s assist this federal invoice.
Carmen Escamilla, San Juan Capistrano
