More than two dozen new SoCal wildland firefighters graduated from a special program Saturday that's helping make the difference in more ways than one.
ALTADENA, Calif. -- More than two dozen new Southland wildland firefighters graduated from a special program Saturday that's helping make the difference in more ways than one.
"It's an amazing adventure. Coming home with nothing to look forward to, and you don't know what's going to happen with your life, you don't know if you're going to end up going back," said Daton Harris, superintendent of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program."For them to have this platform, and for them to be able to really extend their career, and really be able to be an asset to the public and to their community, is huge.
"A lot of these people, we all come from the same background, so to even see us get able to get another chance and be rehabilitated into the community again is a great feeling," Tate said."Now I can walk around with my chest out and know I have purpose."
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