Fire Escape
Amika Mota was a young mother, a midwife, and the daughter of a feminist icon. One night she caused a fatal crash that would separate her from her family and brand her as a criminal. Trapped inside prison, looking for any way out, she gets the call to join an all-female crew of incarcerated firefighters. When the alarm sounds, they drive out into the community on fire trucks as heroes – pulling bodies from crash scenes, saving lives and fighting fire. Every call brings her the chance to reclaim the world she lost. Follow Fire Escape on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can get access to exclusive bonus episodes available only on Wondery+ or Amazon Music with your Prime membership. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting www.wondery.com/links/fire-escape now. Hosted by Anna Sussman from Snap Studios at KQED. Snap Studios is home to the Snap Judgment and Spooked podcasts.
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Amika Mota was a young mother, a midwife, and the daughter of a feminist icon. One night she caused a fatal crash that would separate her from her family and brand her as ...
Follow Fire Escape on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can get access to exclusive bonus episodes available only on Wondery+ or Amazon Music with your Prime membership. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting www.wondery.com/links/fire-escape now.
How did Amika Mota go from a midwife and mother of three to a prisoner inside one of the...
Amika is thrown in the hole for forty days. Locked in a windowless cell, she can hear the women through the walls losing their sanity. To protect herself, Amika must shut down all connections with everyone she loves: her cellies, her mom, and even her kids. The world looks dark until she sees a small light that may illuminate a path to her new life when she gets a call from the firehouse.
At the firehouse, Amika plans a drop – a secret plan to sneak forbidden cell phones to her friends still on the inside. She begins to worry she might get caught. And then she’s called to an emergency involving one of her jailers.
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Amika and the Fire Girls are called to the scene of a terrible crash and need to rescue the passengers from the wreckage. Amika realizes the driver of the car is intoxicated. While saving his life, she reckons with lives lost and the harsh future awaiting the young patient. Back at the firehouse, Amika’s crew are called out to a Christmas Eve emergency.
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As wildland fires burn hotter and stronger across California, Amika and the incarcerated firefighters are put in extreme danger. At a massive, out of control fire, Amika must defy orders for the sake of the women on her crew.
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The Fire Girls blast their sirens to salute Amika as she is released from prison after seven years. She has no career, no home, no money, and teenage children who have been waiting for their mom to return.
But the hardest part of regaining her freedom, would be believing that she is worthy.
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Brittany Davies' house burned to the ground when she was a little girl. She was kept on life support for months until she miraculously awoke in the hospital. As a mom, her life came to a screeching halt when she faced losing contact with her own child.
Special guest Anna Sale, host of the podcast Death, Sex & Money joins us in the studio to talk about Brittany's story, and what happens when mothers are separated from th...
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From one of California's most notorious juvenile detention centers, a 16-year-old girl named KD joins fire camp. There she fights wildfires side-by-side with free firefighters, dropping ...
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As a kid at home reading National Geographic, Jodi Biers found an article about smoke jumpers – women who jumped out of helicopters to fight wildfires. Jodi knew that she’d found her cal...
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No one ever comes back to Chowchilla once they have been freed from prison. But as a Fire Girl, Adrianna Montiel had saved lives and battled blazes hand in hand with the Chowchilla Volun...
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