Britaney Gomez was 16 years old and high on weed — as she was most days back then — when she crashed her car in her hometown of Modesto seven years ago, killing two people.
She went to prison, serving out most of a 12-year sentence at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.
But on Tuesday, the 23-year-old was one of five women to graduate from the state’s first training program for female inmates who want to be firefighters when they are released from incarceration. She became the crew leader in the grueling program, funded by Cal Fire and run by a former inmate who became a firefighter upon his release in 2018…