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Whenyou join CAL FIRE, you join a family of employees that function as a team. You will build trust and friendship with your co-workers, as together you respond to emergencies and challenging situations.

CAL FIRE works year-round to promote healthy forests and protect communities by removing overgrown vegetation through prescribed fire, tree thinning, pruning, chipping, and roadway clearance. Hundreds of projects are completed each year and can be viewed by clicking the link below.

High-severity wildfire is occurring at striking rates in Sierra Nevada forests. On top of all-hazard emergency and fire response, CAL FIRE is implementing proven fire-prevention strategies, working to enforce sustainable logging practices, and reforesting woodlands after catastrophic events.

Your phone call is always answered by experienced Fireservice personnel. For more than 50 years, Southwest Florida has trusted Fireservice for remediation, restoration, mitigation, and remodeling when disaster strikes.

Something we take immense pride in is our level of experience and expertise. As a reputable mitigation company in Soutwest Florida, our team of highly trained professionals have the knowledge and training to handle a wide range of emergency situations. From man-made to natural disaster our experts have the skills and experience necessary to assess the situation quickly and develop an effective response plan.

With local offices in Fort Myers, Naples and North Port, our 24/7 dedicated emergency response teams are on the road to you in less than 5 minutes to remediate, restore, and remodel in times of trouble.

For three decades, Fire Service has been the trusted partner for first responders and departments throughout Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. With industry-leading brands like E-ONE, Ferrara, KME, Road Rescue, Wheeled Coach, Fouts Bros, Custom Truck & Body Works, and Excellance encompassing our fire apparatus and ambulance portfolios and brands like Akron, Elkhart, FireDex, Innotex, TFT and Stryker included in our loose equipment lineup.

The Department of Fire Services helps keep communities safe. We provide firefighter training, public education, fire prevention, code enforcement, licensing, fire investigation, hazardous material response, and emergency response.

The Department of Fire Services provides the fire service, regulated industries, and individuals with training, education, prevention, investigation, and emergency response services. This work includes training firefighters, hazardous material response, fire investigation, public education in fire and life safety, and incident support.

On July 9, 2024, President Biden signed into law the Fire Grants and Safety Act (S.870). After two years of advocacy by CFSI and our National Advisory Committee members, the AFG and SAFER grant programs will continue to be able to deliver vital federal support to fire departments across the nation and enable them to address their baseline needs. Specifically, this bill:

While the legislative path for a bill to become a law can appear relatively straightforward, it is never smooth and requires constant, sustained, and coordinated effort. In this instance, the fire service remained persistent, staying the course and never relenting until the bill became law. The collaboration between the national organizations and many members of Congress cannot be understated and was essential in moving this bill forward, despite a series of hurdles.

On June 18, by a vote of 88 to 2, the Senate passed the Fire Grants and Safety Act (S.870), a bill to reauthorize the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant programs, as well as the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) through fiscal year (FY) 2028. The legislation also extended the sunset date for AFG and SAFER to September 30, 2030. The bill has been sent to the President to be signed into law. Once signed, these programs will be protected for the next several years, ensuring that the fire and emergency services can continue to access vital federal support.

The final passage of this bill resulted from a coordinated, multi-year advocacy effort by CFSI, members of CFSI's National Advisory Committee, and our Capitol Hill partners. The path was long and challenging, but working together, fire and emergency services organizations prevailed in reauthorizing the grant programs.

"The core mission of CFSI is consensus building, and for over 24 years, we have worked collaboratively with the other national organizations to preserve and fund these two programs, as well as the United States Fire Administration," said Bill Webb, CFSI's Executive Director. "It is our honor to have led this most recent effort to reauthorize AFG, SAFER, and USFA in this challenging political environment."

The effort to reauthorize AFG, SAFER, and USFA began in 2022 during the 117th Congress. The fire and emergency services groups worked with our Hill partners on the text of a reauthorization bill to introduce it and move through the legislative process. Despite attempts to enact a bill in 2022, the legislation stalled, so we regrouped and started the process again at the start of the 118th Congress.

The 118th Congress has been a challenging Congress for legislating. Still, even with the complicated political terrain, CFSI and our partners remained steadfast in communicating the importance of AFG, SAFER, and USFA to the Hill.

The path towards passage in the 118th Congress started quickly, with the Senate introducing, marking up, and passing a bill in the spring of 2023. However, this process was not without its complications. CFSI and our fire service partners worked tirelessly with our Senate champions to overcome hurdles and move the measure through the legislative process.

The bill was transmitted to the House, where the fire groups worked with our House partners to determine the best path forward. Despite tight voting margins, a tense political climate, and challenging legislative timetables and requirements, the fire organizations and our Hill champions never wavered. The House introduced a companion bill, moved it through the committee process, and eventually passed it on May 8, 2024, sending it back to the Senate for final approval.

The success of this effort illustrates the importance of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus in uniting members of Congress to work together on fire service issues regardless of political affiliations. Members join the caucus to learn how to best support their local fire and EMS departments. These members are often the first to put their time and energy into advancing fire service legislation, including the Fire Grants and Safety Act. We owe a debt of gratitude to a large group of members who were instrumental in passing this legislation. They include:

The Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) is the statutory State Fire Academy for Illinois. It serves as the oldest continuous fire training institution in the United States. Since 1925, first responders from across the state, nation, and the world have relied on IFSI to deliver hands-on, innovative, and top-quality training, education, and research.

Each year, IFSI reaches approximately 60,000 students through the delivery of over 1,600 courses. Our Firefighting, Special Operations, and Leadership and Command Programs sit at the forefront of national training standards. To consistently offer the highest quality and portable training and education, IFSI maintains accreditation with the National Board of Fire Service Professional Qualifications (Pro Board) and the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC).

The main IFSI campus, located in Champaign, offers a 28-acre training ground with innovative, class-A, live fire and technical rescue props and training equipment. Additionally, IFSI maintains an active fleet of mobile training resources that support hands-on and engaging educational efforts at locations across Illinois and the country. Each year, nearly 65% of IFSI students complete courses at locations other than the main campus.

The Illinois Fire Service Institute is a leader in life safety research. The Institute focuses on action-oriented studies that have a direct impact on first responders' work, health, and safety. IFSI Research carries out projects on the Champaign training grounds, on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, and at partner facilities across the country.

It is our privilege to support the members of the fire service. And, we are proud of our students, staff, and numerous partner affiliations. We invite you to learn more about the Illinois Fire Service Institute through our Annual Report.

The Bureau coordinates and instructs many basic and advanced level courses at our facility and also locally across the state in the subject matter areas of firefighting, hazardous materials, vehicle extrication, technical rescue, instructor development, officer development, fire prevention, traffic incident management (TIMS), and fire investigation. We also offer multiple National Fire Academy direct-delivery courses annually.

We are accredited by the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC) and the National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications (ProBoard) and are authorized to issue the following certifications following completion of the respective training class and both written and practical skills examinations: Firefighter I, Firefighter II, Hazardous Materials Awareness, Hazardous Materials Operations, Driver/Operator Pumper, Driver/Operator Aerial, Fire and Emergency Services Instructor I, Fire and Emergency Services Instructor II, Fire Officer I, Fire Officer II, Fire Inspector I, and Fire Investigator.

In addition to our facility having on-site training grounds to conduct live-fire training evolutions, we have multiple mobile training props that can be requested to be delivered for local community-based training.

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