PHOTOS: Camp Cinder Shasta is back in Redding for 2025! Cal Fireโs four-day camp, which also has a location in San Luis Obispo, is meant to empower young women ages 15 to 17 and educate them about careers in firefighting. Cal Fire representatives said they hope to build confidence, teamwork, and leadership for campers. It includes experiences like vehicle extrication and rescue, water rescue, hose movement and hose lays, along with helicopter operations. Camp Cinder Shasta Operations Section Chief Ivy Williams told the Northstateโs News the camp aims to improve diversity while expanding on professional skills.
โYou have to be a very strong person, you really have to have that dynamic personality and be moving forward, and so, this is part of that, is us giving them that challenge and allowing them the opportunity to see the other women that are working around them,โ Williams said. โWe also show them how we work with our male partners and we have these great working environments just interactively and spontaneously.โ
Williams added, โFrom the beginning of the day to the end of the day, [the campers] will grow so much. They actually can relate to each other. Theyโre doing things together, and it just becomes relatable.โ Among the 32 campers in Redding are Sonia Clayton and Sophia Ebert. The teens told KRCR theyโve had a good time learning more about the fire industry, adding that itโs helped them recognize a career in fire is a possibility for them in the future.
