Reference Texts
Reference texts
Communiqué Collection
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Annual Reports
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Firefighting Aircraft
2022 CalFire Aviation GuideDownload
2018 CalFire Aviation GuideDownload
1986 Wildland Firefighting
Addendum to 4300 Manual, by Clayton-Day-McFaddenDownload
1981 ICS-120
ICS_120-1 Self paced instructionDownload
1981 Fire Control Handbook – 5600
The California Division of Forestry in 1957
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1957 Clar’s “Brief History of the CDF”
A Brief History of CDF with Emphasis on Governmental AuthorityDownload
1954 Principles of Forest Fire Management
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1952 Forest Fire Fighting Fundamentals
- The first jointly produced industry-standard training manual written by and for Wildland Firefighters. Created in 1952 to address the need for resource material to train new firefighters, volunteers, pick-up labor and other emergency-hire firefighter crews, who could assist in times of need. Click Here to view
1950 Water vs Fire
Instructional text by Alva J NeunsDownload
California State Forestry Labor Camps 1931/32
- Booklet describing experience of running labor camps in Madera in 1931/32, written by SFR Walt Winters in 1968 and published by CDF in 1973. Digital version by Golden Gate University.
1933 Emergency Conservation Work
- Trifold brochure from 1933 on the benefits of the Emergency Conservation Work Program.