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Thank you. From KQED. From KQED. From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

On the front lines of California's wildfires,

teams of incarcerated people work alongside Free World crews to stop our state's increasingly dangerous forest fires.

They make a fraction of the pay to confront the same dangers

and show the same bravery.

In a new book, Breathing Fire, Jamie Lowe paints a deep portrait

of one particular group of incarcerated women firefighters,

delving into how they got to prison, what they do to work themselves out,

and what happens when the fires end and they're back out in the world.

We'll talk with Lowe and two of the firefighters she chronicles in the book about life inside and out.

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