If you're a firefighter, chances are you're exhausted at the end of the day. That's the conclusion of a new study conducted by the job-rating firm CareerCast.com. In it's annual Jobs Rated Report, the organization lists "firefighter" as the most demanding job in the US, ahead of surgeon, corporate executive and police officer.
In order to properly respond to terrorist attack, irefighters need to know what to expect. In pursuit of that realism, Roseville streets were transformed into the scene of a nightclub car-bomb attack, as video crews with FireStar Productions shot the scenario for a new Web-based version of CFFJAC's Terrorism Consequence Management.
Every year, California Professional Firefighters honors those who capture what it means to be a first responder. Send us your photos of heroism on the front lines and you could be one of our photo contest winners. Photos must be submitted by November 22, 2009.
In a move that underscores fire service solidarity on core public safety issues, CPF President Lou Paulson and CalChiefs President Sheldon Gilbert have signed an agreement outlining guiding principles for labor-management collaboration. The Labor-Management Initiative Guiding Principles is California’s implementation of the IAFF/IAFC Labor-Management Initiative.
Despite our current economic crisis, California's endangered mutual aid system can be saved, through passage of the Emergency Response Initiative (ERI). This is the message that CPF President Lou Paulson and California Fire Chiefs Association President Sheldon Gilbert hammered home this week at the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Management hearing in San Diego.
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