When the state consolidates inmate fire camps next month, remote Modoc County is left with few resources to prevent and battle its lightning-sparked fires.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Nestled in California’s northeast corner, Modoc County calls itself the “last best place.†Home to the sprawling Modoc National Forest and graced with lava flows, cinder cones, juniper flats and pine forests, the county is one of California’s most sparsely populated places.<\/p>\n It’s also one of California’s most vulnerable places to the lightning-sparked wildfires that tear through wilderness.<\/p>\n Now this remote region is poised to become even more vulnerable as the Newsom administration realigns the state’s inmate camps that fight wildfires.<\/p>\n
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