This is a skill course designed to produce student proficiency in the performance of the duties associated with Engine Boss, Single Resource (ENGB). Topics include engine and crew capabilities and limitations, information sources, fire size up considerations, tactics, and wildland/urban interface.
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in association with CalFire is hosting a series of webinars as part of its efforts to track and report on climate change and its impacts on California. This webinar is the first in the series and titled “Vegetation and Wildfires Webinar: Bridging Science and Action” will be co-convened with CAL FIRE on March 20 between 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. It will focus on climate change impacts on vegetation and wildfires.
Great Leadership is the Key to Retaining Great People
The best way to strengthen your volunteer fire department is through excellent leadership! Learn the skills to help, recruit and retain thebest people in your community. The highly interactive course will explore the dynamics of leadership and what the current fire service demands.
Hands On Live Fire Training on Suppression, Vertical Ventilation, and Fire Behavior hosted by Patterson Fire Department
The NVFC, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), is offering a hazmat train-the-trainer program: Partners in Training (PIT) Crew. This project will help first responders gain the knowledge and skills they need to train others in their communities on hazmat safety and response. Through the partnership, the NVFC will provide 15 in-person training opportunities across the U.S. at no cost to departments. Experienced hazmat trainers and those new to the field are welcome to participate.
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 Instructor of Live Fire Training-Acquired Structure Hosted By Red Bluff Fire Department Date: Jan 16-19, 2025 Time: 0800-1800 Designed For: Instructors wishing to instruct State Fire Training’s Fire Control 3-Live Fire Training course. Course Description: This course provides the knowledge and skills that prepare an instructor trainee to plan, organize, instruct, and conduct live […]
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
Sunday, February 23, 2025 | 8am – 2pm
Ben Clark Training Center | Riverside CA
Get ready for a day of thrilling firefighter challenges, exciting demonstrations, and unforgettable team-building!
February 25 – March 3, 2024
Riverside Convention Center
CTEX provides outstanding educational and networking opportunities for people associated in all aspects of fire safety in and out of CA. CTEX will be open to everyone involved in the fire service, not just CSFA members.
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.
