The Extinguishers

We heard about these fire camps from Lizzie Johnson. She’s a reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle and spends most of the year chasing fires around California. She took Miki and one of our other producers, Lilly Sullivan, to the Creek Fire camp with her and has stories of people doing all kinds of jobs you never think about — from laundry to printing maps and hiking out to the farthest corners of a blaze. (29 minutes) 

More from Lizzie:

• Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
• San Francisco Chronicle: The Evidence Burns Away