CA Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee

Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed CFFJAC Program Director Yvonne de la Peña to serve on the California Apprenticeship Council The CAC provides policy advice and hears appeals in apprenticeship cases.

The California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee (CFFJAC) is bringing vital training to all firefighters across the state with its latest web-based terrorism consequence management (TCM) training modules, which will begin rolling out this summer.

The CFFJAC 11th Biennial Conference will be held November 8-10, 2011 at the Doral Desert Princess Resort.

Using Visalia's multimillion-dollar Fire Training Center for the first time, CAL FIRE firefighters got one step closer to being ready for fire season. The training was made possible by funding from the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee (CFFJAC).

What does it take to be a firefighter? Hundreds of potential firefighter recruits had a chance to see for themselves at this year's Firefighter Career Expos held at Orange, Livermore and Sacramento CPAT Centers in October.

FireStar Productions' contributions to the fire service were recognized this year by the Telly Awards. The video production company was honored with six Telly Awards including one for the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee's Terrorism Consequence Management "Car Bomb Scenario" training video.

Twenty more future firefighters are better prepared to meet the rigorous demands of the job, after completing the ROP fire tech class in Sacramento County. The year-long class wrapped up in May. The California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee and the Sacramento County Office of Education worked in cooperation to make this ROP fire tech class possible.

At the second annual Live Your Dream Conference, sponsored by the Soroptimist International of Riverside, professional women speakers and panelists like CFFJAC Women's Commissioner d'Lisa Davies were on hand to spotlight a range of occupations available to young women.