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Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation honoring the sacrifice of California’s fallen public safety heroes. Assembly Bill 1561 by Assemblymember Fred Rodriguez (D-Los Angeles) extends the current voluntary tax check-offs for the California Firefighters Memorial and the California Peace Officers Memorial to 2021.
Governor Jerry Brown this week signed legislation sponsored by the CPF and authored by Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) making it clear that the training of firefighting equipment operation may be conducted by a firefighter who possesses a valid Class C license with a firefighter endorsement.
The California fire service has come together to call for a Safety Stand Down this Thursday, July 3, 2014 The Stand Down encourages departments to review critical wildfire safety procedures ahead of what promises to be a blistering fire season.
As the nation marks the one-year anniversary of the Yarnell Hills Fire tragedy, the California fire service is urging all departments to join in the 2014 Safety Stand Down on July 3.
The nation's largest chemical companies have trained their hired guns on CPF-sponsored legislation that would call out the use of toxic chemical flame retardants that put firefighters at risk of job-related cancer. Lobbying didn't prevent bipartisan support in major committee test Tuesday.
Strength Through Solidarity -- a wrap up of CPF's biennial state convention in Los Angeles. Delegates elected locally charted the course for the organization and reflected on CPF's 75th anniversary.
In a humbling act of generosity on Memorial Day weekend, an anonymous Air Force spouse thanked Vacaville firefighters Sunday by paying for their groceries when an emergency call forced them to leave station shopping unfinished.
Normal operations resumed this morning at Camp Pendleton nearly a week after three separate wild land fires burned over 21,000 acres. Cooler temperatures have also helped contain the 2,000 acre Cocos Fire in San Marcos. Suspicion persists that the fires were intentionally started.
A burst of heat-assisted wildfires continued to roar through portions of San Diego County, with total acreage burned topping 10,000. The largest blaze is at Camp Pendleton. A body was discovered in a transient camp, the first confirmed fatality.