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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [3] [4] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
California’s eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub. It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in ...
California leaders have promised that the post-fire rebuilding process will be speedy. But experts say reconstructing damaged neighborhoods in their former image would put the residents at risk of ...
Video footage of fire containment efforts shows a California Air National Guard plane attempting to suppress the fire by "dropping a line of fire retardant on the Palisades Fire in the mountains ...
Sparky the Fire Dog. Sparky the Fire Dog is the official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association. Created in 1951 to promote fire safety education for children, [9] [10] he is a Dalmatian dressed in firefighting gear. A children's book about Sparky by Don Hoffman was published in 2011.
The Fire Safe California Grants Clearinghouse (AKA Grants Clearinghouse) was created by the members of the California Fire Alliance (now called preventwildfireca.org) in order to facilitate the process of applying for Federal grants to do wildfire prevention projects on private lands in California. This process is also referred to as "one-stop ...
Since the massive fire years of 2017 and 2018, home insurers have been gradually withdrawing from the most fire-prone parts of California. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)
The Essentials of Fire Fighting (7th edition) is divided into 5 sections (A through E) which contain 27 chapters. Chapters 1 through 22 focus strictly on fire fighting content as required by Chapters 4 and 5 of NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications (2019 edition). Chapter 23 provides meets the training requirements ...