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The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek
Specifically, the proposed withdrawals from reserve accounts—a key part of the Governor’s budget balancing plan—are only allowable with a budget emergency declaration. Moreover, in addition to the immediate budget problem facing the state, both our office and the administration estimate that based on current revenue forecasts, the state will face significant structural operating shortfalls—at least $30 billion annually—from 2025‑26 through 2027‑28. 
Governor’s Proposal
Includes Roughly $200 Million—Growing to Over $750 Million Ongoing—From the General Fund to Implement a 66‑Hour Workweek. The Governor’s budget includes $199 million ($197 million from the General Fund) and 338 positions in fiscal year 2024‑25 to begin implementing a shift to a 66‑hour workweek as contemplated in the 2022 MOU with Unit 8. The costs of the proposal would increase in the coming years as CalFire phases in the changes, rising to $770 million ($756 million from the General Fund) on an ongoing annual basis and 2,457 permanent positions by 2028‑29. As shown in Figure 5, these costs include (1) salaries and benefits for adding new firefighter and other wildfire response‑related positions; (2) salaries and benefits for adding new support staff, including administrative personnel and maintenance staff; (3) additional overtime (including both scheduled and unplanned) for firefighters and other wildfire response‑related classifications; (4) 235 new vehicles, as well as costs for vehicle leases, maintenance, radios, and equipment; (5) various augmented aerial support‑related contracts, such as for contracted pilots and mechanics at airbases; (6) one‑time special repair funding to address maintenance needs at CalFire facilities; (7) training center costs; and (8) proportional funding for contract counties.

Figure 5
Summary of 66‑Hour Workweek Funding Proposal
(Dollars in Millions)

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 338 

 $28.3 

 2,457 

 $191.9 

Fire Response Positions

 231 

$19.5 

 2,075 

$162.1 

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Anale Burlew | CAL FIRE
She promoted to Battalion Chief in 2011 at the Northern Region Operations Coordination Center (NOPS) and in 2014 became the Battalion Chief of the NEU Grass Valley Emergency Command Center. In 2017, Chief Burlew promoted as the Central Operations Division Chief in the Sonoma Lake Napa Unit (LNU) overseeing Training, Safety, Fleet, and the Emergency Command Center.
 
In 2018, Chief Burlew became the Deputy Chief of Command and Control, including oversight of the statewide Command and Control Program, Hired Equipment Program and the Sacramento Command Center. In February 2022, Chief Burlew was appointed as the Assistant Deputy Director of Fire Protection Operations where she was responsible to manage and support CAL FIRE’s Fire Protection Operations Programs including Operations Support, Intelligence, Command and Control, Hired Equipment, Incident Management Teams, and Law Enforcement Programs including Law Enforcement and Civil Cost Recovery.
 
Since 2014, Chief Burlew has served on various CAL FIRE Incident Management Teams as a Plans Section Chief and as an Incident Commander Trainee. She serves on various cadres including the National Association of State Forester’s Complex Incident Management Course, most recently. Chief Burlew has both led and supported efforts to completely rewrite and maintain currency on multiple CAL FIRE Handbooks.  She has a Bachelor’s degree in Fire Service Administration from Sacramento State University. 
 

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Listen to this episode of the Five Points with the Chief Podcast in which Chief Tyler discusses the purpose, process and impact of the 2024 strategic plan. 
 


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April - June 2023: External Outreach

July - October 2023: Working Group to begin Development of Goals and Objectives 
October - November 2023: Compile and Design Plan
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Home Hardening | CAL FIRE
Radiant heat which can cause windows to break even before fire reaches the house. Single-pane and large windows are particularly vulnerable.
Windows that face large vegetation areas or have vegetation directly underneath.
Vinyl windows that do not have an internal reinforcement bar in the horizontal or vertical separator member as they are prone to failure from radiant exposure due to deformation of the frame.

What to do about windows

Install or upgrade to double-pane tempered glass windows. Tempered glass is about four times more resistant to breaking during a wildfire.
Noncombustible metal framing material is an optimal choice. 
Confirm if vinyl windows have a vertical or horizontal reinforcement bar.
Create a 0 to 5 ember-resistant zone by removing vegetation and other combustibles by all windows.
Install metal mesh window screens to improve the performance of windows subjected to radiant heat exposure.

 

 


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Close the gap! Poorly sealed doors with gaps or penetrations provide a path for embers to enter your home or garage.
How are doors vulnerable? 

Doors that have rot or decay.
Combustible door framing material as embers tend to accumulate at the bottom thresholds and sides.
Doors that have gaps or penetrations greater than 1/8 inch. 
Door screens that are not made of metal mesh.
Fuel sources stored nearby or inside a garage which increases its ignition potential.
Garage doors that lack gasketing or have gaps that allow for the intrusion of embers.

What to do about doors

Install or replace non-compliant wood screen or sliding doors with a noncombustible option.
Install metal mesh screens in sliding or screen doors.
Relocate combustibles and flammables inside your garage so they are not located next to ignition sources.
Add metal flashing at garage door jambs and headers.
Add gasketing (weather-striping) to garage doors to prevent ember intrusion. 


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Protect your deck! Deck ignitions can start from flames underneath or embers on top.
How is a deck vulnerable?

Combustible damaged or rotting deck boards as they are more easily ignitable.
Fire Perimeters | CAL FIRE
The following fires were identified as meeting our collection criteria, but are not included in this version and will hopefully be added in the next update: 2022 Cable (CAL FIRE, AEU), 2022 All American (BIA, CRA).
Firep21_2 was released in October 2022. The fields COMPLEX_NAME and COMPLEX_INCNUM were added to the dataset; historical complex fires were updated as such to the best of current ability. COMPLEX_NAME is for fires that were initially individual fires (with their own name) and then became part of a complex and thus were given a new name by the fire management agency. COMPLEX_INCNUM was created for the same reason as COMPLEX_NAME. Ten fires were added (2008 Coleman 1, 2008 Dedrick, 2008 East, 2008 Star, 2012 Hello, 2020 Lytle, 2021 Coyote, 2021 Devore, 2021 Dotta, 2021 Lone). The 2008 Paradise fire perimeter was spatially adjusted to more accurately account for its location. Six perimeters were removed, becoming a complex. The 1996 Columbia Hill and Shields Camp perimeters were removed due to confirmation of their status of prescribed burn. The 2014 Coffee fire was replaced by a more accurate perimeter. Thirty-two records' attributes were updated, mostly CAUSE data from 2019 and 2020.
Firep21_1 was released in April 2022. Three hundred seventy-two wildfires from the 2021 fire season were added to the database (21 from BLM, 223 from CAL FIRE, 3 from DOD, 40 from LRA, 15 from NPS, 66 from USFS, 2 from BIA, and 2 from USFW). The following fires were identified as meeting our collection criteria but are not included in this version and will hopefully be added in the next update: Dotta (part of Beckwourth Complex), Greenhorn, Hartman, Lone Rock, Union, and Nelson. The 1933 Griffith Park fire, 2018 Bridal fire, 2020 Kare fire, 2020 Green fire, 2020 Indian fire, 2020 Tripp fire, 2020 Apple fire, and the 2020 Gulch fire were added.
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The latest model serves as an open collaboration in line with NASA’s open science principles to make all data accessible and usable by communities everywhere. It will be released later this year on Hugging Face, a machine learning and data science platform that helps users build, deploy, and train machine learning models. “The development of the NASA foundation model for weather and climate is an important step towards the democratization of NASA’s science and observation mission,” said Tsendgar Lee, program manager for NASA’s Research and Analysis Weather Focus Area, High-End Computing Program, and Data for Operation and Assessment. “We will continue developing new technology for climate scenario analysis and decision making.” Along with IMPACT and IBM Research, development of Prithvi-weather-climate featured significant contributions from NASA’s Office of the Chief Science Data Officer, NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at Goddard Space Flight Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Colorado State University, and Stanford University. Learn more about Earth data and previous Prithvi models: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/impact-ibm-hls-foundation-modelJonathan Deal Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.  256.544.0034   jonathan.e.deal@nasa.gov  ShareDetailsLast UpdatedMay 23, 2024EditorLauren LeeseRelated TermsEarthOpen ScienceExplore More5 min readNASA “Wildfire Digital Twin” Pioneers New AI Models and Streaming Data Techniques for Forecasting Fire and SmokeNASA’s “Wildfire Digital Twin” project will equip firefighters and wildfire managers with a superior tool for monitoring wildfires and predicting harmful air pollution events and help researchers observe global wildfire trends more precisely.Article4 days ago 5 min read5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar SatellitesEditor’s note: The date for NASA’s first PREFIRE launch has changed to no earlier than Saturday, May 25. Additional updates can be found on NASA’s Small Satellites blog. Called PREFIRE, this CubeSat duo will boost our understanding of how much heat Earth’s polar regions radiate out to space and how that influences our climate.
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Rapid Response, then known as the MODIS Land Rapid Response System, was made possible through the collaboration between staff of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland and the USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC). By 2007, the Rapid Response System was producing data globally and had incorporated data and imagery from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite. As this rapid response image and information provision capability became more visible, news organizations began requesting custom geo-referenced images for large newsworthy events. Users quickly realized that the imagery and data products produced by Rapid Response could be used for other tasks that required low latency products, including imagery for monitoring air quality, floods, dust storms, snow cover, agriculture, and for public education and outreach. As the original system aged and the demand and expectations for near real-time data increased, NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) implemented a Near Real-Time (NRT) capability that was closely aligned with the science-processing systems. NASA ESD sponsored the development of LANCE in 2009. NASA's Worldview and GIBS have built on the success of Rapid Response and provide global imagery for MODIS, AIRS, OMI and MLS.
Article on the MODIS Land Rapid Response System: Sohlberg R, Descloitres J, Bobbe T (2001). MODIS Land Rapid Response: operational use of Terra data for USFS wildfire management. Earth Obs 13:8–10.

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Tahoe Center | California Conservation Corps
When not fighting fires, Corpsmembers work with CAL FIRE on fuel reduction projects to reduce the threat of wildfire.

 
 
 

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CCC Tahoe Corpsmembers receive training with our CAL FIRE partners as part of wildland fire crew initial training. Corpsmembers regularly participate in prescribed burns as well as respond to active fires across the state.

 

All Corpsmembers at the Tahoe Center complete Corpsmember Orientation, Motivation, Education, and Training (COMET) and core training courses.
Specialized trainings and certifications offered at the center include:

 
 
 

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Arbor (Includes tree climbing, rope safety, knots, limbing)
First Aid & CPR
Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Certificate
Chain Saw Training
Power Tools Safety and Operation

 
 

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Culinary Academy Boot Camp
Safety Stand Down
ServSafe Food Handler Certification
ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification
Tree Climbing Safety
Leave No Trace
Trail Construction and Maintenance

 
 
 

	 The center also partners with Lake Tahoe Community College to allow Corpsmembers to earn college credits by taking academic courses that have been approved by Corpsmember Development staff. These courses include work experience, Physical Training, Culinary Boot Camp, Wildland Fire Fighting Training, and other classes that benefit our Corpsmembers. The Tahoe Center provides transportation for Corpsmembers attending the community college. 
	
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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The must be cleared by the CCC’s physician to perform the duties of a wildland firefighter, including working long hours over multiple days in heat, dust, and smoke.

Course Description: The CAL FIRE Fire Crew Firefighter Training course at the Magalia Fire Center provides physically fit CCC Corpsmembers with the basic skills in wildland fire suppression.

There will be 20 quizzes. The cumulative score must be 80% or higher. One retake allowed.
There will be a comprehensive 50 question final exam that Corpsmembers must pass with an 80% or higher. One retake allowed.
Corpsmembers will write on paper or recite the “10 Standard Firefighter Orders” with 100% accuracy. One retake allowed.
Corpsmembers will write on paper or recite the “18 Watch-out Situations” with 100% accuracy. One retake allowed.
Corpsmembers must be able to deploy and get into a fire shelter in 30 seconds or less in full wildland Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Program Schedule: In the winter, days of operation are Monday through Friday. During fire season, the Magalia Fire Center operates seven days a week and is able to respond to fires 24 hours a day. When crews are dispatched to a fire, the typical schedule is 24 hours on, with little or no rest, often cutting fire line for hours at a time. This is followed by 24 hours off. Corpsmembers should be prepared to be out on assignment for 14 to 21 days at a time, with only one day off before returning to an emergency.
Corpsmembers continue training and work on fuel reduction projects and other outdoor projects in nearby forests and parks when they aren’t responding to a fire or an emergency. They also take career, leadership, or personal development classes in the evenings. On weekends and days off, there are often volunteer opportunities and recreational trips.
 
 
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The Culinary Program at the Magalia Fire Center provides Corpsmembers with training and on-the-job work experience in a commercial kitchen. Corpsmembers also have the opportunity to earn a ServSafe Food Protection Manager certificate.
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 Fire ChiefAnthony C. MarroneFire Chief Anthony C. Marrone has been a member of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department for 38 years and a chief officer for the past 26 years.  Prior to his appointment by the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors as the tenth Fire Chief and Forester and Fire Warden, Chief Marrone served as the Interim Fire Chief.
Chief Marrone leads one of the largest metropolitan emergency services agencies in the United States, providing traditional fire and life safety services to more than 4.1 million residents and commercial business customers in 60 cities served by the Department, in addition to 120 unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County within its 2,311-square-mile service delivery area.  The Department operates out of 176 fire stations, with 5,000 emergency responders and business professionals operating with an annual budget of just over $1.6 billion.  In addition, the Department provides lifeguard, air and wildland, hazardous materials, homeland security, health hazardous materials, forestry, and urban search and rescue services throughout the County.  The Department’s urban search and rescue team, known internationally as USA-2, is one of only two highly specialized teams available for international response through a cooperative agreement with the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
Chief Marrone’s well-established career combines broad experience in both emergency and business operations with an extensive list of accomplishments and assignments, including leading and managing Business Operations, the Leadership and Professional Standards Bureau, Special Services Bureau, Emergency Medical Services Bureau, East Regional Operations Bureau, and Central Regional Operations Bureau, in addition to special projects.  He has also directly managed routine and complex wildland fires and other significant all-risk incidents.
During his career with the Department, Chief Marrone has served on the Los Angeles County Emergency Preparedness Commission, the FIRESCOPE Board of Directors, Legal Exposure Reduction Committee, County Emergency Operations Center Team Lead, and as an Incident Commander on one of the Department’s three Incident Management Teams.
Chief Marrone looks forward to collaborating with the Board of Supervisors, labor unions, stakeholder organizations, members of the Department, and the residents and communities we serve, to further stabilize the Department’s budget, increase our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and expand emergency services and community risk reduction programs.
 

 

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