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A Sacramento judge has rejected San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's effort to rewrite the attorney general's ballot description of his pension-slashing initiative. The ruling virtually assures it will not be on the ballot in 2014.
Welding is being investigated as the cause of a five-alarm fire that started Tuesday night in San Francisco. Two San Francisco Fire Department firefighters suffered minor injuries battling the blaze at an apartment complex under construction in the city's Mission Bay neighborhood. Half of the city's on-duty firefighters were on the scene within an hour of the initial alarm sounding.
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, albeit not from their constituents.
Outside interests are gathering to press their attacks on firefighter pensions after initial defeats and the anti-pension forces have stepped up efforts on the local level. It's a Wall Street battle against public employees.
Judi Cutaia, a former Davis fire captain, retired three years before having enough service time to receive a maximum retirement. Attacks on pensions are prodding workers into thinking about leaving sooner with the benefits they have, she said, rather than risking reduced benefits or paying more and more toward them.
United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112 President Frank Lima says high overtime costs for the Los Angeles Fire Department stem from LAFD's failure to hire firefighters over the last five years.
An Oceanside couple whose premature baby was saved by two Oceanside firefighter-paramedics has found a unique way to pay tribute to their child's rescuers. The two middle names of little Zavier Morgan Stephan Pestana honor the Local 3736 members who saved him.
More than 70 members of Marin Co. Firefighters Local 1775 -- clad in red local T-shirts -- "walked the talk" Tuesday night, joining labor partners in sinking a plan by the Marin Co. Board of Supervisors to back Chuck Reed's anti-pension ballot initiative.
The California Fire Foundation has an easy way for you to designate all or a portion of your California tax refund to the expansion and upkeep of the California Firefighters Memorial. Just check off Line 406 on your tax return.
Job-related cancer has claimed the lives of two San Francisco Fire Department firefighters in the past eight days. Burning household toxins are to blame, say several department and union officials.