by Chris Van Horne | May 9, 2025 | News, Wildland Firefighting
“It wasn’t like the traditional heavy saw work that you would see, cutting big, tall heavy brush. A lot of it was done low. You had to squat and really move that saw across the ground to really clean that line.” Jacob MesaLos Piños Center Fire season...
by Chris Van Horne | May 7, 2025 | News, Wildland Firefighting
Using Fire Redding Corpsmembers on the Shasta 1 fire crew use McLeods to help keep a burn pile contained and smoldering during a fuel reduction project. Preparing for wildfire is year-round effort. When the CCC Redding Shasta 1 fire crew isn’t responding to...
by Chris Van Horne | May 6, 2025 | News, Resource Conservation
Creating Space Creating defensible space meeting the new Zone 0 standard, Corpsmembers used shovels and loppers to remove any piece of vegetation growing within five feet of state buildings. Long before a wildfire ignites, we all can be prepared for the worst. Our CCC...
by Chris Van Horne | Apr 26, 2025 | News
New Age Training In the CCC, Corpsmembers work on projects in the field across California. They also get unique training opportunities, like a group of Placer Corpsmembers received when given the opportunity to attend a two day drone workshop. It’s a bird, it’s a...
by Chris Van Horne | Apr 22, 2025 | News
Kameron Jackson Humbling. It’s how Kameron describes the honor of not just being the CCC Corpsmember of the Year for 2024, but also to even be his own center’s representative. On Earth Day, the California Conservation Corps announced that Kameron Jackson...