Oregon Inmates Battle Wildfires

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By NTD Newsroom
October 1, 2020NTD News Today
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These men haul chainsaws, axes, and other heavy equipment through ankle-deep ash, up mountainsides, hacking at the earth in search of smoldering embers.

And they do it for just $6 a day.

But for this crew of Oregon prison inmates, such as Rhett Howerton, it’s an opportunity.

 

 

 

 

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