James Ellis, born and raised in Tacoma, WA, is a Wildland Fire Fighter. Incarcerated for the last 18 years, James has been given the opportunity to work a job that takes him out into the community and into the rainforest, mountains, and out to our coast to conduct wildland fire fighting with the Department of Natural Resources. Through this work he's developed many different skills, including planting trees, using a chainsaw, and being trained as a type 2 fire fighter.