California Fire Foundation

A Modesto firefighter who has spent the past year recovering from injuries suffered in a fire returned to work on Sunday. James W. Adams underwent 13 months of medical treatment, including multiple surgeries and intense rehabilitation, after a roof that he was standing on collapsed on Jan. 1, 2010.

Last year was record-setting. The US Fire Administration reports the fewest on-duty deaths of firefighters since the agency started compiling statistics in 1977. There were 85 on-duty deaths in 2010, according to preliminary statistics. 

The Pipes and Drums of California Professional Firefighters kicked off the new year in style, performing for the first time at the 122nd Rose Parade in Pasadena. The show was aired on over a half dozen TV networks in the US and broadcast in more than 200 countries.

You can't see it or smell it. However, carbon monoxide poisoning is the number one cause of poisoning deaths in the world. That's why the IAFF and the IAFC have launched a campaign to help raise awareness of the dangers carbon monoxide pose even after a fire has been extinguished.

LONG BEACH — Thirty years ago, when David Ellis became a firefighter, he rarely considered the risks of the job once he stepped away from a burning building or another emergency. When he discovered cancer-like symptoms in 2007, Ellis, who was Long Beach's fire chief at the time, still didn't think that he could be afflicted with what turned out to be testicular cancer.

Boy Scouts from throughout the Bay Area will be knocking on doors Saturday November 20th, collecting Thanksgiving food donations for the area’s hungry and homeless. For the second year in a row, the California Fire Foundation is sponsoring “Scouting for Food”, the annual food drive in the greater Bay Area.  

Two firefighters who were killed trying to protect their fellow firefighters stuck in the path of last year's Station Fire will have Angeles Forest Highway named after them Monday.

Based on survey data reported by fire departments, NFPA estimates that 78,150 firefighter injuries occurred in the line of duty in 2009. This is a decrease of 1.9 percent from the year before.

Professional golfer Fred Couples was presented a helmet from the California Fire Foundation at a press conference Wednesday for his donation to the California Firefighters Endowment. In 2009, Couples donated $20,000 of his President's Cup winnings to the California Fire Foundation.