To the editor: If the Hearth Act passes, hundreds of present hearth camp inmates skilled in the very best practices in hearth prevention and energetic abatement will full their incarceration with hope for significant employment wherever in our nation (“Under Fire Act, inmate firefighters could have a new pipeline to employment,” Might 27).
In my seven years as chaplain to Hearth Camp 13 in Malibu, I witnessed a whole bunch of ladies turn into empowered and renewed whereas defending our forests, mountains and houses. They have been the primary responders to the aircraft 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 skilled firefighters share their braveness and expertise wherever 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 preventing fires. Andony Corleto and different former inmates who’ve confirmed their mettle ought to be inspired and helped towards a firefighter profession. We have to put together all inmates to rejoin society with the talents to make an honest dwelling.
My grandfather, who was a jail warden in Campeche, Mexico, means again within the Thirties, had prisoners be taught to weave hammocks and opened a prison-run bakery. They did so effectively that a few of the prisoners’ wives requested my grandfather to maintain them in jail past their sentences — they made more cash there than that they had ever made! Let’s assist this federal invoice.
Carmen Escamilla, San Juan Capistrano
