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PBS NewsHour | 'Apache 8' Follows All-Women Firefighters On and Off the Reservation | PBS

Duration: 05:13
Program: Apache 8

Hari Sreenivasan talks to filmmaker Sande Zeig about her documentary, "Apache 8". It follows an all-female Apache firefighting crew as they fight fires both on their own reservation and throughout the country. For most of the women in the film, fighting fires is one of the only jobs they can find on the reservation.

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