NPR's Juana Summers talks with Royal Ramey, the co-founder and CEO of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, about the pathway for formerly incarcerated firefighters to build careers in the field.

But that kind of thing kind of, you know, thrilled me,” says Royal Ramey, the co-founder and CEO of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit based in California that helps formerly ...

But that kind of thing kind of, you know, thrilled me,” says Royal Ramey, the co-founder and CEO of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit based in California that helps formerly ...

Royal Ramey (left) and Brandon Smith are co-founders of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, which provides training and job connections for people who worked in California prison fire camps.

Introduced by Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Rep. Judy Chu, the Fire Act is a new piece of federal legislation that could ...

Ramey’s nonprofit, Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, prepares people like these trainees to become firefighters. “Gavin Newsom passed that bill called AB 2147 that expunges the records of ...

"It's to help them stop having dead-end jobs and start putting them on a career pathway in wildland fire, forestry and the timber industry," Program Coordinator Anthony Misner said. Misner says ...