Meet the formerly incarcerated fire crew protecting California from wildfires

Since 2015, the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program has been helping former inmate firefighters get jobs. Now, FFRP is starting its own private fire crew. They call themselves the Buffalos.

Nov. 10, 2021 5 AM PT

Claire Hannah Collins is a former video journalist at the Los Angeles Times. She was born in Hong Kong and lived in Amman, Jordan, until she was 18. Before moving to Los Angeles, she studied photo and video journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.