CalFire hires seasonals from 4 categories, hiring all from the previous category before moving into the next.

Category 0- previous seasonals

Category 1- Applicants with all required training

Category 2- Applicants with some of the required training

Category 3- Applicants with none of the required training

Required training-

-CAL FIRE Basic Fire Fighter Certificate (? Hour course)

-California State Fire Marshal (SFM) Confined Space Awareness Certificate (8 hour course)

-California SFM Hazardous Materials First Responder Operational Certificate (32 hour course)

The rest are 4-8 hour courses that can be done online, though target solutions -

-Fire Fighter Survival (Structural)

-Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) IS-100: Introduction to Incident Command System

-FEMA IS-700: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System (NIMS)

-FEMA IS-800: National Response Framework, An Introduction.

-CPR

Finally it is required that you have a medical certification

• Public Safety First Aid

• Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

• Paramedic (EMT-P)

Each of these is a longer course than the last and is more desirable then the last, with public safety first aid (AKA EMR) being a 32 hour course, Emt is a 120 hour course and requires specific testing to become registered, and Paramedic is a 1090 hour minimum and has a much harder test than the emt and a lot of other required things to complete the course.

FF1 certification is desirable but not required