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PINE GROVE II CREW Captain Patrick Ousby, left, issues instructions to a group of juvenile wards before they begin the one-hour test to qualify to be on the Cal Fire fire crew at the Bacchi Ranch in Garden Valley in April 25. Working with pick axes, rakes, and chainsaws, the wards have one hour to clear a 300 foot long, six foot wide path down to bare mineral soil.

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A Department of Corrections hand crew cuts a containment line off of Butts Canyon Road near Middletown, Calif. on Wednesday, July 2, 2014.

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An inmate hand crew heads up a fire access road to fight the Colby fire in Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014.

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Inmate fire crews are led to the front lines by a Cal Fire captain above Snow Creek Village near Cabazon.

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Inmate 'WAR' crew.