By Mike Rosso
A unique team of firefighters are being trained in Chaffee and Fremont County through a program with the Colorado Correctional Facility.
Dubbed the State Wildland Inmate Fire Team (SWIFT), the program is designed to prepare offenders for placement on Type 2 hand crews to be utilized on wildfires statewide.
Begun in the summer of 2002, the program is operated by Colorado Correction Industries ( CCI), a division of the Colorado Department of Corrections.