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Firefighters knock down grass fire near I-280 and Highway 87 connector
San Jose Firefighters battled a grass fire that broke out early Thursday afternoon and billowed smoke above and around the connector between the southbound lanes of Interstate 280 and Highway 87 near downtown San Jose. Mercury News
Photographer wants to preserve memories of battle for firefighters
When a fire broke out on the eastern edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2002, the inferno that raged through more than 3,000 acres served as a calling to a local self-taught photographer. Mercury News
Firefighters Knock Down 1-Alarm Refuse Fire near Highway 101 in San Jose
Count the bad ideas in California pension overhaul proposal
Public retirement plans are consistently blamed for local and state budget woes. Any time a community runs into fiscal trouble, its workers are among the first to be demonized, and often bear the brunt of the remedies.
LA Times
San Jose Firefighters Local 230 to host 2016 Calif Professional FF Convention
San Jose Firefighters are proud to announce they will be the host city for the 2016 CPF Convention, April 19th-22nd, 2016 in downtown San Jose.
As fires erupted throughout Sacramento in recent weeks, journalists, politicians and the public flocked to the Sacramento Fire Department's Twitter page.
SAC Bee
VIDEO NEWS
CPF Firevision - No Water for Fires?
Drought Dries Up California - As massive wildfires burn across the state, California's firefighters are struggling with the effects of an ongoing drought.
CFFJAC's Firefighter Candidate Testing Center Launches New Website.
For Fire Departments and candidates in San Jose and across California, the process of hiring, and being hired just got easier.
FF Candidate Testing Center
Airbnb donates $25K to firefighters' toy drive
San Francisco-based Airbnb is expected to announce a $25,000 donation to the San Francisco Firefighter's Annual Toy Drive, the largest single gift the program has received in its 66 years.
www.afterdarksf.com
The staggering tally of those suffering cancers certified by the feds as 9/11-related includes FDNY members (1,100), cops and other Ground Zero responders (2,134), and survivors such as downtown workers and residents (467). Many have more than one type of cancer.
NY Post
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