Fire Captain

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Job Code #: JC-491865

Position #(s): -VAR

Working Title: Fire Captain

Classification: FIRE CAPTAIN

Salary A: $5,934.00 – $7,694.00

Salary B: $6,513.00 – $8,483.00

# of Positions: Multiple

Work Location: United States

Telework: In Office

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Facility: Statewide

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) is California's fire department and resource‑management agency. The organization is comprised of nearly 12,000 permanent and seasonal employees. The mission of the Department is to serve and safeguard the people and protect the property and resources of California.

When you join CAL FIRE, you join a family of employees that function as a team. You will build trust and friendship with your co‑workers, as together you respond to emergencies and challenging situations. CAL FIRE provides employees with a variety of career choices and opportunities. We hope that you will consider a rewarding and challenging career with CAL FIRE!

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Under direction, the Fire Captain supervises the work of an engine company (or companies) and hand crews. Fire Captains share in the management of a fire station, including the maintenance of emergency apparatus and equipment, or perform full‑time duties in one of the following specialty assignments:

• Peace officer/fire prevention duties within a unit
• Serve as a dispatcher
• Serve as an assistant air attack program coordinator
• Serve as a helitack captain
• Supervise crews in conservation camps and fire centers and operate crew‑carrying vehicles and fire apparatus
• Serve as an instructor at the Fire Academy and other training assignments
• Supervise fuels reduction crews

The Fire Captain plans and assigns work, gives instructions, maintains discipline, and makes decisions relating to the supervision of engine companies and hand crews engaged in fighting wildland, structural, or other fires, flood control, hazardous materials incidents, emergency responses, vehicle extrication incidents, and other emergency activities. The Fire Captain may occasionally perform minor maintenance on buildings and fire stations/camps, supervises projects related to resource management, fuels reduction projects using prescribed fire and equipment, trains a company to fight fire and operate tools, supervises and performs the construction and maintenance of fire defense improvements, inspects, supervises the use of, and performs preventive and minor maintenance on assigned equipment, transports a crew over mountainous roads, operates fire apparatus, power tools (e.g., chainsaws), and heavy equipment during emergency incidents and non‑emergency project work, assists in the preparation and maintenance of a fire‑prevention plan, applies and enforces fire‑prevention laws, conducts fire‑prevention education programs, installs and supervises exhibits and displays, issues citations and makes investigations and reports on the cause and origin of fires, collects and preserves evidence, makes inspections for enforcement of Titles 19 and 25 of the California Administrative Code, performs dispatching of resources, performs as fire information officer, supervises the air attack base crew, serves as controller in airport operations, leads a helitack crew, conducts…