12-11-2020 12:00 via news.yahoo.com

After an incarcerated firefighter was nearly killed on the frontlines, California delivered him to Ice

Bounchan Keola is facing deportation to Laos, a country he left when he was four, after helping to fight this year’s historic wildfiresCalifornia officials have transferred an incarcerated firefighter who suffered a near-death injury on the frontlines of a major blaze this fall to US immigration, and he is now threatened with deportation to a country his family fled three decades ago. Bounchan Keola, 39, had just two weeks left in his prison term when he was crushed by a tree while battlin
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