California Professional Firefighters

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Joint Apprenticeship Committee: Labor-management fire training program with more than 146 participating departments serving more than 6,500 firefighter apprentices.

California Fire Foundation: Honoring the courage of fallen firefighters and their families and the perseverance and sacrifice of fire victims.

Firefighters Print & Design: Full-service union print shop, providing CPF members and corporate clients with high-impact printing at competitive prices.

Firestar Studios: Award-winning, state-of-the-art video and audio production, serving the fire service and corporate clients.

The CPF Callback Association: CPF’s communication link with retired firefighters, keeping retirees in touch with the profession they love.

CPF Insurance Trust: Improving the lives of all professional firefighters and protecting their families.

Our Profession

Mar 22, 2012
CPF Firevision: The Corporate Power Grab: A Fight We Can't Afford to Lose: CPF Firevision spotlights the November battle over a Corporate Power Grab initiative that would muzzle working families while preserving political fund raising for corporations and the super rich

Mar 21, 2012
Firefighter Appreciation Day at the Auto Club Speedway: This weekend's Auto Club 400 NASCAR race in Fontana will be honoring California first responders on Firefighter Appreciation Day. A portion of each firefighter ticket goes to support the California Fire Foundation. Tickets are still available -- the race is Sunday, March 25th.

Mar 21, 2012
LODD: CAL FIRE Hvy. Equip. Operator Gordie Varney: CDF Firefighters Local 2881 is saddened to report the loss of CAL FIRE Heavy Equipment Operator Gordon Varney, who succumbed to job-related cancer.

Feb 22, 2012
CPF Firevision - CFFJAC Mentoring Program: Recruit ... Retain ... Promote: A groundbreaking new program for departments, designed to help retain and promote the best and brightest through formal peer mentoring.

Feb 15, 2012
CFFJAC Launches Firefighter Mentoring Program: The CFFJAC and its Women’s Commission have launched a groundbreaking mentoring program designed to help firefighters succeed in a tough, demanding career, and help fire departments retain and promote their best and brightest.

Feb 10, 2012
CBS2 Report: Rewards, Challenges For Women in Fire Service: LA County Firefighters Sarah Cortez and Eleni Pappas are buying the ice cream at their stations this week. The two were profiled in a CBS2 Special Report spotlighting the challenges and rewards of being a woman in the fire service.

Feb 8, 2012
Anti-Pension Group Suspends Initiative Campaign: Citing funding shortfalls and ballot language that was too close to the truth for their liking, anti-pension activists have suspended their attempt to undermine retirement security for millions of California workers.

Feb 3, 2012
CPF Firevision - Special Convention 2012: A Fight We Can't Afford to Lose: CPF members from throughout California gathered in an urgent Special Convention in January to take action against a November initiative aimed at working people in California.

Feb 2, 2012
Governor's Pension Plans Target Current and Future Workers: Governor Brown has released details of his plan to roll back the retirement security of current and future employees. The plan proposes to bypass collective bargaining by imposing a range of pension rollbacks and locking them into the state constitution. CPF and dozens of other organizations denounced the move as an assault on current and future workers.

Oct 12, 2011
CPF Firevision -- 2011 California Firefighters Memorial: On October 1, 2011, 30 names were added to the California Firefighters Memorial at a solemn ceremony in Sacramento.

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