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INMATE FIRE CREWS CALLED TO ACTION With Arizona’s fire season heating up Arizona’s Department of Corrections inmate fire crews have been called to action. Currently, seven of the twelve ADC wildland inmate fire crews including Arizona’s first all female inmate fire crew, are battling blazes across the state. Twelve female inmates and three staff from ASPC-Perryville have been fighting the Sunset Point Fire near I-17 and the Black Canyon City exit since Monday, June 21. Eighteen male inmates and three staff from ASPC-Lewis have been deployed since Sunday, June 20, to a fire in the Prescott area. Nineteen male inmates along with three staff members from ASPC- Winslow have been battling the Bronco Fire in North Phoenix since Monday, June 21, 2005. Crews from ASPC-Safford and ASPC-Tucson returned to their complexes after three days of fighting the Aztec fire in Southern Arizona and then deployed again on Monday, June 21. The ASPC-Safford crew, consisting of nineteen inmates and three ADC staff, are currently assigned to the Bullhead City Silver Creek fire. There are two crews from the ASPC-Tucson complex totaling twenty-five inmates and six staff that have been deployed to the Sunset Point fire. On Wednesday June 22, 2005 a group of twenty inmates and three staff from ASPC-Douglas assisted firefighters with the Perkins Complex Fire located in Kingman. On Thursday, June 23, 2005 they were redeployed to the Cooley Fire in Kearney to battle that blaze. Each inmate on the fire fighting crews has completed approximately 80 hours of Basic Firefighter training and is certified by the State Land Department. Return To Latest News |
