California wildfires

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Kardashian — the aspiring lawyer and daughter of the late Robert Kardashian, onetime O.J. Simpson defense attorney — used her platform to highlight the plight of incarcerated firefighters and advocate for better wages.  Continue reading
Those individuals, who are prisoners in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, make up about 30% of California's wildfire-fighting force in any given year and earn as little as $26.90 for a 24-hour shift, according to Times reports. More than 900 of them have helped battle the wildfires ravaging Southern California over the last week.
Kim Kardashian wants higher pay rate for inmate firefighters: 'I see them as heroes'