With the rising costs of tuition, students across the state are finding it more difficult to afford a college education. The Daniel A. Terry Scholarship helps to ease this burden for children, whose parent was a California firefighter whose name appears on the California Firefighters Memorial Wall.
For three decades, California Professional Firefighters has led the fight to recognize the increased job-related risks faced by first responders, beginning with the nation's first cancer presumption law, signed in 1982 by Jerry Brown. This year, that legacy continues with the introduction of AB 2253, the William Dallas Jones Memorial Cancer Presumption Act of 2010.
A St. Helena winery owner is getting a lesson in the public's support for first responders. After writing an opinion article claiming that "overpaid" firefighters receive "high salaries for doing very little," Dario Sattui found himself the target of a boycott and the trigger of an outpouring of support for first responders.
IAFF Local 1775's article about Firefighter Retirement Benefits in the Bay Area and California has received widespread media attention, being touted as a sane response to the winery owner's comments.
Nearly 100 fire departments in California will be better prepared for a terrorist threat, after sending their training officers and Haz Mat personnel to one of the CFFJAC's Terrorism Consequence Management (TCM) Train-the-Trainer courses. The CFFJAC has held classes in 11 locations throughout the state over the past year.
CPF Firevision is California Professional Firefighters' online video news. CPF continues three decades of leadership with new cancer presumption legislation.