Lol yes defenitly going to be different. I love my orange stormtroopers, and I’ll keep banging in CF Freeway till they tell me to stop.
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Is CalFire adding extra FC’s and FAE’s for these crews or reassigning from other duties?
There are 112 FAE & 30 FC new positions in the FY20/21 budget that are for “Relief issues”. The thought processes being, having relief so people are stuck on duty for weeks at a time like is currently happening with 3 IMT’s being deployed at once
There is still a structural deficiency in the ranks between
FF-FAE-FC.
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Just want to say nice work San Bernardino County Fire Department.
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All the fire centers have BCs assigned to them now and are the dedicated Strike Team leaders. BDU filled this from their fire center to complete it.
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9353G is 2 OV crews. OV camp is all inmate. With the continued staffing challenges, especially in FC ranks. Qualified STRC FC are at a premium these days.
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That’s correct, thanks.
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Ummm…. There are still 9 FC-B’s still assigned at SOME of the CDCR Camps, yet only enough inmates to staff 1-2 crews…. How in the world are we not swimming in surplus FC-B’s. I’m calling Bovine Scat.
Having FC-B’s and having QUALIFIED FC-B’s are very different things. The experience level of the entire CALFIRE workforce is 7.0yr as of July 5th, 2023. OV Camp has always been a very Transitory camp due to its location. I believe the longest tenured FC at OV is 5yr with multiple Type 2 FC requiring a 2nd FC as safety till the 214 process has been completed and the FC typed out.
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Not to mention qualified FC-Bs that are also qualified STCRs
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I’d love to know where there is a CAMP that still has 9 FCB working at that location.
Many have been loaned out to upstaff CENTERS etc.
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CCC Fire generated 30-some-odd Type I Crews with IA Strike engine support last time. With a nod from Cal Fire, I think that would be a good number to hit this year. In principle these Type I Crews stiffen up Region V’s understaff. Might free up some air mobile Hotshots to support NF Operations. They do a lot more hose work than I ever saw in 91-92. IIRC, the Butte Fire Center CLT graduating class hadn’t done a lot of Type 3 Engine training as commonly as the start of the Cal Fire era.
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Not sure what IA strike engines, or air mobile hotshots are, but the CF/CCC Crew model has nothing to do with R5 or NF. They were stood up to supplement the loss from 212 CDCR crews to the current 141 or 142 crews in the CF system, too include CDCR, DJJ, CCC and FF.
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I feel like resource requirements for state and local commitments adding up to staying the course in a Nina fire season scenario makes sense. CCC usually step up in the budget crunches because its a 3 year commitment at max. You can sidestep a lot of immediate federal problems. I could be wrong. This is one of the things CCC raised the flag for, in the first place.
Never mind the fact that CALFIRE crews, of whatever signia, aren’t filled with type 1 quals. Where are the squad bosses? They can’t be split, unless in ST configuration. They still aren’t type 1 by any other agency standards.
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The advantage of a Type 2 crew, or even Type 2IA, is cross training. The same crew fills sandbags, digs snow, makes trail and cuts line, maybe a few ride in engines. It’s like, when you’ve run out of CCC, in CA, well, the next line is Cal Guard, whole another kettle of fish. But Cal Guard rolls to Federal incidents, all the same. Nothing to lose, really, if the Cs still hit 1.3 dollar redeemed for dollars spent budget touchdowns.
All of the CCC, CMD and CF FF1 crews can be broke up.
Each crew has a T1 FC that has attended the CF Crew Mod A & B classes. Additionally, they each have a FAE that is working towards their CRWB qualifications and also attended the CF Mod A & Mod B classes. Finally, those FC & FAE get priority training assignments for S-234, S-330, S-339. Most of the STCR leaders come from the camp/crew program and are fully qualified CRWB with no restrictions.
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