California prisoners help fight wildfires in a Los Angeles mandatory evacuation zone. Fire-wrecked Los Angeles wait for dangerous winds to drop and give a much-needed break to firefighters. "It's the first thing I've done in my life that I'm proud of" says inmate Jacob Castro.
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00:00I would just stack it right there. You can leave it right there.
00:04How far do you want it to go?
00:18I love this. It's the first thing I've done in my life that I'm proud of, besides boxing.
00:22But, you know, I ruined that, so this is a chance to redeem myself.
00:27I like helping back the community, making up for my, you know, bad choices in life.
00:34I've been 29 years in prison, spent 24 on level 4, and I worked my way down.
00:41I feel this is a good career path for me.
00:45You know, I've done a lot in my life, but this is definitely some of the hardest work I've done,
00:49and it really has made a difference in my life.
00:52I really appreciate the opportunity to, you know, not be in prison,
00:56and be out and changing lives and saving lives and camaraderie with my crew.
01:03I really appreciate this, yeah.
01:14They're just a key component to the fire service, really.
01:18We have multiple different styles of crews, from free staff to the guard crews, the military,
01:25and then the triple Cs, which is the youth crews.
01:28These are our inmate-style crews.
01:31We're all here to do the same thing, essentially.
01:34But, yeah, they help big time.
01:38All right, three, hook it up. Let's go.
01:48All right.