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Fire Fact Sheet
Have you been affected by the fires? Do you need information on how to file for critical benefits, searching for a job, or work sharing programs? View our Fire Fact Sheet here.
Farmworkers trained to make land more fire-resilient through state program
Before she became a California farmworker, Guadalupe Rodriguez grew corn with her family on their land in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Each year they used fire to clear the ground and get it ready for planting.
After being evacuated three times because of raging wildfires in Sonoma County, Rodriguez is now learning how to use fire and other natural methods to make Sonoma’s hilly fields and woodlands more resilient to out-of-control infernos that have repeatedly forced her and thousands of others to flee.
California investment helps prepare ‘amazing superheroes’ for careers in emergency medicine
From the community for the community.
That’s the ethos of the EMS Corps, a program started in Alameda County that has trained more than 500 young people ages 18-26 to provide emergency medical services since it launched in 2012.
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