I was unaware that the poor people that are fighting the fires were inmates being paid 1$ an hour until watching your show! That's horrendous. The news calls them fire fighters but that's hardly a term I would use to reference them. True fire fighters are either volunteer or paid a decent salary (to my knowledge, don't actually know what they get paid in various states). They should give these people a different term so people understand that they are being taken advantage of.
Sad how they won't admit that an additional component of the fires is them sucking the lakes and rivers dry out there, decreasing the evaporation and creation of clouds for more rainfall. Not surprising at all though.