A serious fall taken by a veteran firefighter from the roof of a burning home has raised some big questions about staffing shortages. Sacramento City Fire department Captain Gene Dibble along with Engine 60 and several other crews responded to the house fire Saturday night.
Capitol Report. An overview of CPF's 2011 legislative agenda, aimed at protecting core services and vital firefighter workplace and benefit protections.
California Professional Firefighters' 2010 Annual Report is now available online. The 24-page report provides an overview of CPF, a rundown of its major accomplishments for the previous calendar year, and a look ahead to new challenges.
Shop Stewards: Our local will be hosting its second Fire Ops 101 event this spring. For those of you who are not familiar with the program, Fire Ops 101 is a one day hands-on event where our local decision makers get to suit up in PPE and experience the issues that we face as Firefighters in Marin. At our last Fire Ops, we put local Mayors and Board members from throughout Marin through Ross Valley's burn trailer, Truck 54's extrication equipment and various other evolutions that demonstrated why adequate staffing and training are important to us.
Thousands of mourners gathered in downtown L.A. on Friday for the funeral of fallen firefighter Glenn Allen, who died last week while fighting a house fire in Hollywood Hills. According to the L.A. City Fire Department, officials are expecting about 8,000 spectators, 200 dignitaries, about 200 fire apparatus and over 100 agencies from all over the country.
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