Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires

This program features a bonus clip with archival recordings from several of the inmate firefighters and the author.

A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.

Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But ...