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Thousands of Southern California residents have been forced to evacuate as a series of wildfires menace neighborhoods. More than 9,000 acres total have been burned so far in the numerous fires, the largest of which is a 6,000 acre blaze at Camp Pendleton.
Governor Jerry Brown has signed CPF-sponsored legislation easing an arbitrary limit on survivor benefits for the families of firefighters stricken by job-related cancer.
Bonfire Injury Response -- An unruly youth party is the scenario used to help jointly train fire and law enforcement in CA Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee's groundbreaking Unified Response to Violent Incident program.
CPF President Lou Paulson and PORAC President Mike Durant forcefully respond to an odious Sacramento Bee editorial, which attacked police and fire death benefits on the day of the Peace Officers Memorial Ceremony in Sacramento.
It is with a great deal of sorrow that IAFF Local 1014 announces that Fire Fighter Specialist Darrell Rice, Fire Prevention Division, Petroleum Chemical Unitpassed away Tuesday April 22nd, 2014.
S.A.V.E. -- CPF's California Fire Foundation has launched the Supplying Aid to Victims of Emergency (SAVE) program. The program allows firefighters at the scene of destructive events to provide victims with a gift card to help get them back on their feet.
Camp Pendleton Professional Firefighters #F-85 member William Walsh grew up with his cousin, Edward Walsh, in the Boston suburb of Watertown. Edward Walsh, 43, died last week in as nine-alarm blaze along with fellow Boston Fire Fighters Local 718 member Michael Kennedy. The Walsh men come from a firefighting family.
More than 40 California State Legislators and staff members participated in the California Professional Firefighters Fire Ops 101 training session March 5 on the west steps of the Capitol and got a chance to take some heat.
California firefighters now have a forceful advocate on EMS issues as CPF Secretary-Treasurer Lew Stone has been sworn in as the new chair of California's Emergency Medical Services Commission.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has officially suspended efforts to place a pension-change measure on the November ballot, but he also plans to come back with another proposal in 2016. What do you think? Take this poll from The Sacramento Bee.