California introduces new bill to pay incarcerated firefighters the same wage as non-incarcerated firefighters

Last June, months before her release date, Paula Drake remembers getting called to fight the Gorman Fire in Los Angeles County, California. She was part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Malibu Conservation Camp #13, which is jointly operated by CDCR and the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD). When her crew arrived […]

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The Insurance Crisis That Will Follow the California Fires

California is, of course, not the only state facing—or not facing up to—a climate-inflected insurance crisis. After a series of devastating hurricanes—Harvey in 2017, Ida in 2021, Helene and Milton in 2024—property owners in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas are also finding insurance increasingly hard to afford or even obtain. The situation is similar in Colorado,