What Next: On the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The fires raging across the American West are like the climate crisis itself: Too big and too extreme to understand all at once. So today, we’re zooming in on some of the people fighting those fires: crews of incarcerated women. In California, they risk their lives for abysmal pay, and officials are just starting to realize how essential they are to the state’s fire response. Guest: Jaime Lowe, author of Breathing Fire. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	If you stack up all the facts about fire season in the American West,
0:39.4	they can get overwhelming.
0:41.2	Right now, there are dozens of fires all around the country.
0:44.6	The largest, the bootleg fire has grown to be the size of Los Angeles.
0:50.5	And no matter where you live, you can physically feel the impact.
0:55.8	Smoke has swirled from Oregon and California all the way to New York,
1:01.2	which is where Jamie Low lives.
1:03.7	I mean, I was walking around yesterday and I could tell
1:07.3	that the air quality was definitely affected.
1:11.0	The sun was kind of orange and muted,
1:17.6	which feels like we are in that apocalyptic science fiction world.
1:28.8	Jamie's a reporter.
1:31.0	She's also a native Californian.
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