California Assemblyman Isaac Bryan proposed legislation that would raise the pay for incarcerated firefighters who have been battling the Los Angeles wildfires.

Incarcerated firefighters earn $5.80 to $10.24 per day, with an extra $1 per hour if assigned to an active emergency, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. For one 24-hour shift during an active emergency, the lowest skill level would earn $29.80 per day, the CDCR said. Prisoners who work a 24-hour shift get a 24-hour rest period.

“Incarcerated firefighters are on the front lines saving lives,” Bryan, a Democrat the bill’s author, told Politico. “They are heroes just like everybody else on the front lines, and they deserve to be paid like it.”

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