Local Job Corps students keep wildfire crews functioning
A fire blazed in the mountains behind a fire camp. Columbia Basin Job Corps students are a vital part of keeping those camps running.
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A Columbia Basin Job Corps student builds a signboard at the fire camp near the Bear Gulch Fire in the Olympic National Forest.
A Columbia Basin Job Corps student puts his forklift training to good use at a fire camp.
Job Corps students check and roll hoses for fire crews to use on a Washington wildfire.
MOSES LAKE — Firefighters are battling fires across Washington – 20 of them Tuesday morning – but they’re not doing it alone. Back at the fire camp, at a safe distance from the fire, Job Corps students are working to ensure the firefighters have everything they need.
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