News & Events – California Fire Technology Directors

CFTDA Dues Increase

Members in good standing, please see the Members Dues page in the Members area for more information on the Dues increase. Click this link

November 15, 2024/by Chris Delcour

Vector/Acadis routine maintenance

SFT

Good morning,

Please share with membership.

Vector/Acadis will be performing routine maintenance to enhance our infrastructure security on Sunday, October 13, from 8:00am EDT through Sunday, October 13 12:00PM EDT. During this window, they’ll be upgrading server infrastructure, and users may experience temporary inaccessibility to Acadis.

We appreciate your understanding as we remain committed to maintaining reliability, security, and compliance. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

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Caryn R. Petty

Statewide Academy Coordinator

State Fire Training

715 P St., Sacramento, CA. 95814

(916) 662-0611 Office/Mobile

October 9, 2024/by Chris Delcour

November Meeting Hotel Info

Members, News

Meeting information for both Fire Tech Directors and the EMS meeting on Nov 7 & 8 is below:

Meeting location – MPC PSTC, 2642 Colonel Durham St, Seaside CA 93955 Room 119 (Upper building, no parking permits required)

(The Marriott is about a 10-15 minute drive away from the PSTC.)

Here is the room block info (apparently its a busy week for hotels in Monterey so it took a little longer to get the block finalized/approved):

Please click the following link: https://book.passkey.com/go/MPCPSTC2024 link is open and ready to accept reservations.

If you wish to provide your guests with the option of phone reservations, please use the following dedicated Group Reservations phone numbers of 1-800-228-9290 in order to make sure guests are able to access special block rates and ensure they book within the event room block, they just need to mention they are with attending the “CA Fire Tech Directors” to receive the nightly group discounted rate of $184.00 single-quad occupancy.

Please note that as long as rooms are available in your group room block guests can reserve until your cut-off date of, October 16, 2024

– Cancellation Policy: 48 hours prior to arrival by 4pm PST

– Major credit card required to secure reservations. Deposit: NOT Required

Greg Greenlee

Fire Protection Technology Coordinator

Monterey Peninsula College Public Safety Training Center

Cell – 831-402-5473

[email protected]

October 2, 2024/by Peter Cacossa

OER – Online Educational Resources

Curriculum

As you heard at our last meeting in Coronado , the time has come to move forward with the creation of an OER (s) in Fire Tech. We will start with Fire 001 Principles of Fire and EMS (aka Fire Protection Organization). See below:

If you are interested in learning more about OERs and how you can contribute to our project, please fill out our OER Interest List Form here. I will do a targeted presentation on the next steps for all the interested parties before out next meeting in Monterrey. Everyone is welcome to attend and learn more about OER and the many benefits to the thousands of Fire Tech Students in the system.
It is my goal to have this OER completed by our next meeting in Coronado , next year. I believe that we can get this done with the amount of talent and brain power in our organization.
Thank you to Jason Hemler, Mark Swink, Pam Hutchinson and others who have volunteered to help us complete this project.
It will be useful for our Organization to become more familiar with OER (Online Educational Resources) and the many sources of funding available. OERI Online Educational Resources Initiative webpage
I am looking for some funding from Sierra College, it appears that the priority is for Degrees and Certificates programs that are converting all their publishers Textbooks into OERs by 2026-2027. Fire Tech is behind this, and we may not qualify for the main grants , however, I am seeking alternatives at this time.