“Sir, You Do Realize I Am 9-1-1?”: On the Lives and Afterlives of California’s Firefighters
Jaime Lowe reports on the neglect and exploitation coursing through the civilian fire infrastructure revealed after the release of her book “Breathing Fire,” which investigated Shawna Jones’s life and her death—and the stories of the more than 200 women who worked on all-female crews as part of California’s incarcerated firefighting system....