The Chula Vista Firefighters Foundation is hosting it's Annual Charity Golf Tournament on September 21, 2010 at Salt Creek Golf Course in Chula Vista.  In addition to the tournament, the Foundation is having a charity ball drop for cash prizes.

To sign up for the Golf Tournament click here.

To buy balls for the Ball Drop click here.

from CPF.org

Firefighter-friendly candidates continued to find support among voters in this year’s primary contests for the Legislature and constitutional offices.

California Professional Firefighters' endorsed statewide candidates were top vote getters in six of the eight constitutional office contests, led by former Gov. Jerry Brown, who won his uncontested primary for governor.

Click here to read more about why CPF endorses Jerry Brown

At the legislative level, CPF-backed Democratic and Republican candidates won an astonishing 95% of contests.

Among the winners were several highly competitive Republican primaries in the Central Valley where CPF-backed candidates bested well-funded rivals. CPF’s top priority candidate in the state Senate – Noreen Evans – handily won her hard-fought primary.

The overall anti-incumbency mood dampened voter turnout in the primary, which came in at an all-time low of 25%.

This unpredictability produced a few surprises, most notably the apparent defeat of Republican Mike Villines, CPF’s endorsed candidate for insurance commissioner. Another close loss was in the race for attorney general, where CPF-backed Alberto Torrico lost to two well-funded rivals.

Of the 82 legislative contests in which CPF made an endorsement, the firefighter-backed candidate lost only in Senate District #4 and in Assembly Districts #9, 30 and 50.

The CPF Executive Board will review the results in these and other contests, and offer general election endorsements a little later on in the summer.

The firefighter position did not prevail on Proposition 14. The successful measure to eliminate the current primary system was opposed by CPF – the only statewide ballot measure on which CPF took a position.

To review the complete list of CPF-backed candidates and more information, check the Firefighters Election Guide at www.cpf.org.

from IAFF.org

A landmark study released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that the size of fire fighting crews has a substantial effect on the fire service's ability to protect lives and property in residential fires. Click here to read the news release.

Conducted by a broad coalition in the scientific, fire fighting and public safety communities, the study results found that four-person fire fighting crews were able to complete 22 essential fire fighting and rescue tasks in a typical residential structure 30 percent faster than two-person crews and 25 percent faster than three-person crews.

The report is the first to quantify the effects of crew sizes and arrival times on the fire service's lifesaving and fire fighting operations.

This and other scientific data in the report will help educate public officials, fire chiefs and other decision-makers on the importance of adequate staffing and deployment with respect to fire fighter and public safety.

Study investigators from NIST and the IAFF announced the results of the study at a press conference at the Hilton Washington in Washington, DC, before the start of the annual Congressional Fire Services Institute meeting of top fire safety officials from the across the nation.

Click here for the full report.
 
The study is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters grant program.