Anna Sussman

It makes me nervous that people will be hostile or frustrated with those two things in the same sentence.

Is it a reaction that you feel from the world?

But even though they felt so much hesitance toward anything that might look like moving on, Amika and the women inside would find little ways, year after year, to allow themselves happiness, to find joy.

Do you remember sending the first one home to your family?

What do you remember about it?

On Christmas Eve, typically the firefighters would open presents sent to them by women on the outside.

But this one Christmas Eve, they got called to a house fire.

There was another fire crew on the scene when they got there, a civilian crew, and they were putting out the flames.

The firefighters lined up in the living room and out the front door to the lawn.

When the CEO pulled up to his house on Christmas Eve and saw a bunch of incarcerated women removing gifts from his house, everything and everybody stopped.

Fire Escape is a production of Snap Studios and Wondery.

This series was created, written, and produced by me, Anna Sussman.

And I want to thank Amika Moda for her help and generosity in sharing her story with us.

For Snap Studios, our senior story editors are Mark Ristich and Nancy Lopez.

Marissa Dodge is our director of production.

Original music by Renzo Gorio and Doug Stewart.

Doug Stewart also created our theme song.

Sound design and engineering by Miles Lassie.

For Wondry, our senior story editor is Phyllis Fletcher.

Our development producer is Eliza Mills.