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A firefighter memorial service is scheduled for February 5, 2014 at 10am in Pasadena honoring John Tennant, CPF Second District Emeritus and former State Fire Marshal. Brother Tennant died this past weekend after a short illness.
A fast-moving fire near Glendora in Southern California has scorched over 1,700 acres and forced thousands to evacuate. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a drought emergency in California in response to the widening risk.
Decimated by budget cuts that have left the department down as many as two-dozen firefighters per shift, San Jose has once again failed to meet the countywide 9-1-1 response standard. It's the 14th straight month that San Jose has failed to meet the standard.
Governor Jerry Brown's 2014-2015 State Budget has been released. Thanks to a huge surplus, the spending plan calls for modest increases in many areas, while paying down billions in debt.
Anti-pension forces are still actively considering a November ballot attack on retirement security in the wake of new ballot language released this week. California Attorney General Kamala Harris issued the all-important title and summary of the pension measure by San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed.
A Look Back: 2013 was a year of success and sorrow for the fire service. In Prescott, Arizona, the profession had its largest one-day loss since 9/11, while in California, teamwork and training helped cope with one of the largest fires in California history.
California Professional Firefighters and Local 2881 are saddened to announce the loss of their own. On December 20, 2013 CAL FIRE Fire Captain Pete Santana passed away at the age of 64 after a nearly two year courageous battle with job-related cancer.
A Santa Clara Superior Court judge has invalidated the central provision of a pension-slashing initiative in San Jose that threatened basic retirement rights for millions of California workers. The closely-watched decision ruled that the city's Measure B illegally cut the pensions of current workers.
Public pension foes got yet another lump of coal in their holiday stockings. The non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office says San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's initiative to gut retirement security could cost into the billions over the next two decades, and long-term savings could be offset by cost increases in other areas.
Chuck Reed's pension-slashing ballot initiative receiving extremely low public support, according to a recent survey.