News & Updates

These bills cover areas important to firefighters and their communities, including firefighter health and safety, workers’ compensation presumptions, protecting public resources, and pension security.

With the threats to firefighter working conditions, wages, benefits, and retirement security continuing to grow, CPF leadership has revamped the Membership Activism Committee with renewed focus and energy to take on CPF’s most pressing legislative and organizational priorities.

Sacramento – California Professional Firefighters (CPF) announced today its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election, praising the Vice President on her leadership on and deep understanding of the needs of firefighters and emergency responders responsible for protecting the public’s safety.  CPF President Brian K. Rice made the following statement on…

On September 26th, a big rig carrying lithium-ion batteries at the San Pedro Bay Port Complex overturned, igniting an intense fire that disrupted port operations and caused the closure of a major freeway.

Former President Trump should be ashamed for threatening to withhold federal firefighting aid from California should he be elected. As of today, thousands of firefighters are on the front lines responding to wildfires throughout the state, and countless Californians are in harm’s way as they heed evacuation orders. Nevertheless, former President Trump expressed that he…

California’s firefighters and paramedics see the impacts of this crisis, and the human toll it takes, every day on the job. 

Every one of the seven measures CPF sponsored in the Legislature have been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom

Epic ambulance waiting times at hospital emergency rooms are crippling the 9-1-1 medical response system.

CPF and its 35,000 members join our brothers and sisters in Riverside City Firefighters Association Local 1067 in mourning the sudden loss of their president, and CPF 1st District Vice President Emeritus, Tim Strack.

CA led effort to enact Federal Firefighters Fairness Act, signed by Pres. Biden in December

At the end of the 2021-2022 Legislative session, CPF is proud to share a full report of the sponsored bills and priority items that were signed into law by Governor Newsom throughout the two-year session. We are grateful for the support from the Governor and Legislature, for their support of efforts to protect firefighters and…

SB 1127 cracks down on unreasonable employer delays for presumptive workers’ compensation claims.

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