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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF, or CAL FIRE) is the State of California's agency responsible for fire protection in State Responsibility Areas of California totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests. In addition, the Department provides varied emergency services in 36 of the State's 58 counties via contracts with local governments. It is often called the California Department of Forestry, which was the name of the department before the 1990s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://calfire.ca.gov/about/about_calfire_history2.php )〕 The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is also the largest full service all risk fire department in the Western United States and operates more fire stations year round than the New York (FDNY), Los Angeles (LAFD), and Chicago (CFD) fire departments combined. ==About== CAL FIRE is a department of the California Resources Agency, a state cabinet-level department that also comprises the California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the California Department of Water Resources. The department is responsible for the fire protection and stewardship of over 31 million acres of California's privately owned wildlands. In addition, the Department provides varied emergency services in 36 of the State's 58 counties via contracts with local governments. The Department's firefighters, fire engines, and aircraft respond to an average of more than 5,600 wildland fires each year. Those fires burn more than 172,000 acres annually. Along with over 350,000 annual calls for service, only 2% of which are wildland fires. CAL FIRE also uses inmate handcrews in conjunction with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assist with fire suppression and logistics. CAL FIRE works with employees of California Conservation Corps for logistics and vegetation management. Programs to control wood boring insects and diseases of trees are under forestry programs managed by CAL FIRE. The vehicle fleet is managed from an office in Davis, California.〔''State of California 1998 Telephone Directory'', (Sacramento, California: State of California, Department of General Services, 1998).〕 The Department's Director is Ken Pimlott, who was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown.〔Fraser, Debbie, ''CDF Training and Academy Course Catalog, March 2006,'' (Ione, California: State of California, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, 2006).〕 CAL FIRE operations can be viewed as fitting into two categories: Schedule "A" and Schedule "B". Schedule "B" is defined as Resources Agency/CAL FIRE-funded, it is the wildland side of CAL FIRE primarily responsible for protecting the SRA. Schedule "A" activities include county and municipal fire departments, as well as fire protection districts run by CAL FIRE under contracts with local governments. From north to south, Butte, Napa, San Mateo, Tuolumne, Merced, San Luis Obispo, and Riverside counties are examples of county fire departments operated by CAL FIRE under contract. Another commonly heard CAL FIRE term is ''SRA'' which refers to ''State Responsibility Area:'' lands or area for which CAL FIRE has the primary responsibility to manage the public safety during a fire incident. Starting on January 24, 2007, CDF has changed its "informal" name to CAL FIRE. The purpose of the name change was to more accurately represent the all risk nature of the department. (〔minute 12:38 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oNdpgnjQS8〕) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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