CSFA and Chowchilla Fire Department (Madera County) will be hosting live fire training at the Chowchilla Fire Department (240 North 1 st Street, Chowchilla) on Saturday, April 22 and Sunday April 23. Training begins at 9 a.m. and wraps up at about 3 p.m. Lunch will be served. Students should bring their own personal protective […]
CSFA and Del Norte Fire Chiefs Association are offering no-cost live fire training in Smith River (Del Norte County) June 3 and 4. This training is offered for two days, once on Saturday and a repeat on Sunday. Firefighters are welcome to do both days, but it is not a two-day training. This is open to all firefighters in Del Norte and neighboring counties. The location is 301 N Fred Haight Dr Old Rays Building 301, Smith River, CA 95567.
The Fire Control 3: Structural Firefighting course provides the student the opportunity to learn the basics of fire dynamics, chemistry and physics, structural fire behavior, structural fire attack tactics, and providing the knowledge and the opportunity for demonstrating their skills in locating, controlling, and extinguishing an interior structure fire. This course also provides future instructors an opportunity for learning the knowledge and demonstrating the skills for instructing fire fighters in these same fireground skills.
EVENT TIME
9/12-14 (1700-2000 each day) & 9/16-17th (0900-1700 each day)
The Fire Control 3: Structural Firefighting course provides the student the opportunity for learning the basics of fire dynamics, chemistry and physics, structural fire behavior, structural fire attack tactics, and providing the knowledge and the opportunity for demonstrating their skills in locating, controlling, and extinguishing an interior structure fire. This course also provides future instructors an opportunity for learning the knowledge and demonstrating the skills for instructing fire fighters in these same fireground skills.
Live Fire Training, Forcible Entry and Ventilation Props available; Identifying best practices for entry into working structure fire environments
Hands On Live Fire Training on Suppression, Vertical Ventilation, and Fire Behavior hosted by Red Bluff Fire Department
Hands On Live Fire Training on Suppression, Vertical Ventilation, and Fire Behavior hosted by Williams Fire Department
Hands On Live Fire Training on Suppression, Vertical Ventilation, and Fire Behavior hosted by Patterson Fire Department
This is an instructor-led course intended to be presented at the local level. Instructional units include firefighter safety in the interface, managing human factors in the interface, pre-incident planning, sizeup and initial strategy, structure triage, structure protection overview, tactics in the interface, tactical operations and resource use in the interface, action assessment, plan update, and after action review. Designed to assist any emergency responders who will be planning for and making operational decisions during an interface incident. This course is for personnel desiring to be qualified as Incident Commander Type 4 (ICT4), Task Force Leader (TFLD), or any Strike Team Leader.
2025 CSFA Fire Control 3 Live Fire Training-Acquired Structure Hosted By Red Bluff Fire Department Date: Jan 17-19, 2025 Time: 0800-1800 Designed For:Volunteer, Paid-Call Firefighters and Professional Firefighters Course Description: This course provides the knowledge and skills that prepare a firefighter to locate, control, and extinguish an interior structure fire. It involves live fire training in […]
2025 CSFA NORCAL TRAINING ACADEMY
Hosted By El Dorado Hills Fire Department Training Center
2025 CSFA NORCAL TRAINING ACADEMY
Hosted By El Dorado Hills Fire Department Training Center
Calaveras County consists of 10 volunteer fire departments:
The CCFCA fire agencies are located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 188 miles east of San Francisco and 135 miles west of Lake Tahoe in California. Found midway on State Highway 49, between Sacramento and Yosemite, Calaveras County links the two towns of the California Gold Country. With an average of 6,000 fire and emergency service calls a year, our 11 fire districts serve a rural area of 45,578 people. We provide fire protection and rescue service to 1,020 square miles of rural area. Our 11 volunteer agencies respond to structure fires, wild land fires, medical emergencies, water rescue, technical rope rescue, hazardous materials spills, public service assistance calls and other emergencies. The Calaveras County Fire Agencies protects an area that is 66% rural wild land, 21% residential, and 3% commercial, including Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a preserve of Giant Sequoia trees, located in the county several miles east of the town of Arnold.
Below is a list of the selection criteria each department requires in order to consider an application for volunteer firefighter. Read the criteria and make sure that you qualify, then click the Apply button to complete your application online.
Although local governments and departments establish different selection criteria, many departments require that volunteers:
Time requirements vary by department. Time commitment will depend on several factors, such as the number of calls the department receives, training requirements, shift versus on-call structure, and community activities in which the department requires volunteers to participate.
Volunteer departments prefer that volunteers have the ability to respond to calls 24 hours a day, although most departments still accept volunteers who are unable to leave work or other obligations to respond to a call.
Typically, departments pay for training and firefighting equipment. Volunteer firefighting is an unpaid position; however, some departments may provide stipends or reimburse volunteers for certain expenses.
