To the editor: If the Fireplace Act passes, 1000’s of present hearth camp inmates educated in the perfect practices in hearth prevention and energetic abatement will full their incarceration with hope for significant employment anyplace in our nation (“Under Fire Act, inmate firefighters could have a new pipeline to employment,” Might 27).
In my seven years as chaplain to Fireplace Camp 13 in Malibu, I witnessed lots of of ladies develop into empowered and renewed whereas defending our forests, mountains and houses. They had been the primary responders to the airplane crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his daughter and associates. They cleared brush and handled the location respectfully and sorrowfully. These ladies confronted the Palisades and Eaton fires for us.
With our gratitude, let these educated firefighters share their braveness and expertise anyplace 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 find out how 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 an honest residing.
My grandfather, who was a jail warden in Campeche, Mexico, manner again within the Thirties, had prisoners be taught to weave hammocks and opened a prison-run bakery. They did so nicely that among the prisoners’ wives requested my grandfather to maintain them in jail past their sentences — they made extra money there than they’d ever made! Let’s help this federal invoice.
Carmen Escamilla, San Juan Capistrano
