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Jul 10, 2008

Female inmates doing time on Calif. fire lines (AP)

Tracy Violet, from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's conservation camp program, is part of a female fire crew working in the vicinity of the Gap wildfire Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in Goleta, Calif. Violet is one of 28 female convicts working the front lines of the nine-day-old wildfire ripping through Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - Tracey Johnson wields a chain saw, tosses branches and rakes brush under the punishing sun and a heavy pack as smoke from a raging wildfire looms over the mountains nearby.



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