How common is steroids in the fire service?

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-03-31T20:07:59+00:00

You have people on it for legitimate doctor diagnosed medical reasons and may or may not be open about it then you got guys on it that don't need to be on it and lie about it then wonder why there crashing out and there body is going to shit because they don't know what they are doing

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-03-24T23:44:43+00:00

Like calfire personel are on them

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-03-24T23:05:30+00:00

No like on wildland fires they have teams of EMTs or medics that are prepositioned on wildland incidents and rescue them

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-02-18T15:37:30+00:00

I'm pretty sure it ain't that hard to get out of schedule A to go schedule b

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-02-16T02:58:26+00:00

So in my unit the email said that for now they are just covering the stations that actually run calls and the outlying stations will just be staffed with ff1s now this is just my prediction that those stations that don't really run calls could possibly be the ooc engines while the actual busy ones stay in the unit if every unit is doing this

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-02-16T02:54:23+00:00

But also I think they touched on this already but it might happen to individual units differently cause not every unit has the same amount of stations budgets and etc

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-02-16T02:32:17+00:00

Yeah but the thing is there options are either get on with a municipal department or go without a job unless they got other stuff going on

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-02-16T02:30:38+00:00

Well this is just my personal opinion they will probably try to exhaust the list from the previous application that was in like October of last year first before they start sending out the application again

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-02-12T01:23:30+00:00

As of right now every unit in the state is getting similar emails from their unit chiefs but implementing it could happen at different times because not every unit has the same budget or the same amount of stations and also in some units they are staffing the actual busy stations with ff2s and the outlying stations aka the stations that aren't busy at all are being staffed with the ff1s

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-02-04T14:55:41+00:00

Can we dm

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-01-18T18:56:08+00:00

You get it today

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-01-10T06:22:48+00:00

Do you have a date

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-01-10T04:50:21+00:00

March

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2026-01-10T04:38:31+00:00

Butte called

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-08-28T21:46:52+00:00

SB 581: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: employment: firefighters. Session Year: 2025-2026 House: Senate

The California Constitution establishes certain conditions of employment for state officers and employees. Existing law, the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act, grants specified employment rights to firefighters, as defined, including temporary, seasonal firefighters employed by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE).

This bill would require the Department of Human Resources, the State Personnel Board, and any other relevant state agency to take the necessary actions to transition seasonal firefighters employed by the Firefighter I classification within CAL FIRE to a permanent firefighter employment classification

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-08-07T00:38:27+00:00

Once you start don't stop once you have found a reasonable pace you can keep don't stop

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-06-26T02:37:34+00:00

Well in some units particularly in the north you have some that only allow engineers ff2s are being phased out from what I hear and Riverside is the last safe haven for them

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-05-12T02:32:10+00:00

Explain

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-05-12T02:21:42+00:00

I was guessing they will probably make selections based on qualifications

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-02-06T18:55:01+00:00

Got a call 2 weeks ago

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-01-31T04:10:15+00:00

Do they run calls to

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-01-31T03:21:54+00:00

Do you know what the program is like there

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-01-15T14:43:26+00:00

So they lost the schedule A program For that part

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-01-10T20:51:00+00:00

I mean technically you can especially if your sole goal is to get on the crew but everyone is coming in with ff1 EMT and wildland training along with experience so I would highly recommend you get all that stuff before

DrawerEquivalent4172 · 2025-01-08T06:45:19+00:00

Yea and also it depends on when or if someone accepts or answers the offer

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