The California corps bills itself as the nation's oldest and largest organization of its kind. Jerry Brown used a similar model when he launched the California Conservation Corps while serving his first two terms in the 1970s and 1980s. They joined 30 corps members who have fought fires since 2009 from a CCC camp in Ventura County. Another 105 corps firefighters work with the U.S. Forest Service, about 30 more than last year. When they're not responding to fires, floods and earthquakes, corps members work on outdoor projects such as thinning forests and removing dead trees.

Source: Fox News September 12, 2016 19:07 UTC