Every effort is being made to extinguish the fire that has spread in Los Angeles, America. The fire that spread from the forest to the city has burnt thousands of houses to ashes. Thousands of firefighters are present to extinguish the fire that has raged in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, America has taken a big decision.

In fact, America has now deployed more than a thousand prisoners lodged in California jails on the frontline to extinguish the fire in Los Angeles. These prisoners include about 55 young prisoners aged 18 to 25 years. Let us tell you that in America, the prisoner firefighter program is run to bring prisoners into the mainstream.

These prisoners are trained in many fire camps in California. This training is voluntary. This gives prisoners a chance to come out of jail, get training and get a reduction in sentence. Prisoners participating in this program get a better environment than traditional prisons.

Training is provided to prisoners

Let us inform you that in the year 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom passed a law. The purpose of this law is to enable prisoners to get jobs after completing their sentence. However, it is worth noting that this program also has some limitations. This law has been criticized many times. Despite the law, many times prisoners face problems in getting permanent jobs after being released.

Payments being made to prisoners

While the fire continues to rage, this disaster has turned out to be an opportunity for the prisoners. The prisoners engaged in extinguishing the fire are being paid from $5.80 to $10.24 per day based on their ability. In case of emergency, these prisoners can earn $1 per hour. Most of the prisoners deployed are being given a two for one credit for helping. This simply means that for every day of working in the emergency service to extinguish the fire, two additional days of punishment will be exempted.

Los Angeles is burning

The fire in the US city of Los Angeles is still out of control on the 11th day. Many areas are still burning and people living near them have been asked to leave their homes. Meanwhile, the death toll from the fire has risen to 27 while dozens of people are injured. So far more than 12,300 buildings have been reduced to ashes, the loss is expected to be more than $150 billion.

The Palisades area of ​​Los Angeles has suffered the most from the fire. The fire broke out in this area on the edge of the forest on January 7 and has not been extinguished yet. 23,713 acres (96 square kilometers) of land in this area has been engulfed by the fire. Now that the wind speed is decreasing, it is believed that the fire will be controlled to a large extent by the end of the week. While 14,117 acres (57 square kilometers) of the Eaton area is engulfed by fire.

The danger may increase further next week

More than half of the affected area has been extinguished. The US National Weather Service has said that the kind of wind speed that increased at the beginning of this week, something similar is expected in the next week starting from January 20. If the wind speed increases in California on Monday-Tuesday, then the risk of fire spreading will increase once again. But there are still three days left of that situation, during this period the fire in Eaton can be extinguished and the risk of fire spreading in Palisades can be reduced.