A Camarillo camp where juvenile offenders have been trained to fight fires will close, leaving one similar camp open in California. CAL FIRE's training camps across the state hold about 196 fire ...

Summer camp gives teen girls training as wildland firefighters 02:00. SAN FRANCISCO -- Cal Fire is hoping to inspire girls to join the fire service once they're adults.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection issued more than 270 California National Guard Soldiers protective gear to begin hand crew training at Camp Roberts Aug. 23, 2020, to support ...

(FOX40.COM) — CAL FIRE is calling on all young women interested in entering the fire service to consider attending their free 4-night sleep-away at Camp Cinder. Young women between the ages o… ...

CAL FIRE crews from San Luis Obispo, Nacimiento, Fresno, and Tulare began a three-day training course at Camp Roberts Wednesday morning using the "fighting fire with fire" technique.

In 2005, at the peak of the inmate firefighter program, officially known as the Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, there were 192 crews, or 4,250 inmate firefighters, according to the state ...

The budget proposal would allocate $7.7 million to implement and operate the training program, as well as $18.9 million to fund the renovations of Cal Fire's existing conservation camp, bringing ...

Around 2,200 of the inmates currently working at fire camps are "fire line-qualified," according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

KSBY Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo, CA. CAL FIRE conducts training burn at Camp Roberts. Posted: May 22, 2025 | Last updated: May 22, 2025. None. More for You ...