IAFF Local 935, is a labor organization that represents the men and women of the San Bernardino County , Big Bear City , Big Bear Lake, Colton, Loma Linda , and Montclair Fire Departments. Its members are dedicated to the protection and safety of the Communities they serve. The firefighters of Local 935 are committed to the well being of the public through our humanitarian efforts, donations, and events.
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ORIGINAL EVENT: June 7, 2025 | Station 306, Hesperia
Hundreds of residents joined firefighters and community partners for Station 306's open house, pancake breakfast, apparatus push-in ceremony and public-safety displays.
The temporary station near the Silverwood development houses a paramedic engine, ambulance and brush engine, improving coverage for Hesperia's growing south end until a permanent facility is built. Events like this also give families a chance to meet firefighters, see apparatus up close and learn how crews live, train and prepare for emergencies.
Station 306 shows what cooperation and investment can accomplish. It also highlights the need to keep working: aging facilities need replacement, unbuilt stations must move forward, and sustainable funding must support enough firefighters and resources for a growing High Desert.
SAFETY MESSAGE FOR FAMILIES: Teach children that firefighters in protective gear are there to help, practice two ways out of every room and choose an outdoor family meeting place.
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VIDEO VAULT | February 27, 2025 | Tower 19 Academy
Not every academy lesson happens inside a burn building. This archival Tower 19 video shows recruits gathered for a hands-on demonstration—an important part of turning technical information into practical fireground judgment.
Career preparation combines classroom learning, equipment familiarization, physical conditioning, repeated skills practice and teamwork. Recruits must learn not only how a task is performed, but why it is performed, how it supports the crew and how conditions can change the decision. That foundation continues through probation and throughout a firefighter's career.
For anyone considering the fire service: prepare early, build strong fitness habits, develop the ability to work on a team and monitor official County recruitment channels for future opportunities.
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RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT UPDATE | REMS
COLEMAN CREEK FIRE | OREGON
August 8, 2026
Our 4-person Rapid Extraction Module Support (REMS) team remains deployed on the Coleman Creek Fire near Juntura, Oregon.
The Coleman Creek Fire is currently approximately 308,700 acres and 84% contained. With overall fire activity significantly reduced, our members remain assigned specifically to the REMS mission, maintaining readiness to respond to firefighter injuries or medical emergencies anywhere on the incident.
During this period, the team has continued REMS-specific training and technical rescue drills while also assisting with line medic activities and medical reconnaissance throughout the incident. This includes moving through operational areas, identifying access and extraction options, and providing medical support to firefighters working in remote portions of the fire.
WHAT IS REMS?
Rapid Extraction Module Support is a specialized, pre-positioned rescue and medical resource designed to rapidly access, stabilize, package and extract an injured or ill firefighter from terrain where traditional emergency vehicles may not be able to reach.
Our 4-person team combines wildland, ALS and technical-rescue capabilities. The team includes a Captain who is Engine Boss qualified, paramedic capability, a certified ARV operator and rope-rescue-qualified personnel.
The team also deploys with ARV305, an All-Terrain Rescue Vehicle that provides increased mobility for personnel, medical equipment and technical rescue gear in steep, rugged and remote terrain.
Wildland incidents present a unique rescue challenge. Firefighters may be operating miles from established roads in terrain where a conventional ambulance or fire engine simply cannot travel. If a firefighter becomes injured or critically ill, reaching the patient is only the first step.
REMS personnel must be capable of:
• Rapidly locating and accessing the firefighter
• Providing immediate medical care, including ALS
• Packaging the patient for movement
• Establishing rope systems when necessary
• Performing steep-angle or over-the-side rescues
• Moving patients using Stokes/litter systems
• Utilizing an ARV to transport patients through difficult terrain
• Coordinating transfer to an ambulance, helicopter or other transport resource
The goal is to bring rescue and advanced medical capabilities directly to the firefighter, rather than relying solely on traditional EMS resources to reach terrain they may not be able to access.
By pre-positioning this capability on a major wildland incident, REMS reduces the time between a firefighter emergency, medical intervention and safe extraction from the fireline.
Even during periods of reduced fire activity, maintaining that capability requires constant readiness, knowledge of the incident terrain and access routes, and continued proficiency with the technical rescue systems that may be needed when an emergency occurs.
Our Local 935 members remain deployed and ready to support firefighters throughout the Coleman Creek Incident.
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LOOKING BACK | May 23, 2026 | 25500 block of 18th St., San Bernardino
Our members located a room-and-contents fire inside a residence and extinguished it before flames could extend through the remainder of the home.
A fast interior attack protects lives and property, but it is a coordinated operation. Firefighters must advance hose lines, search for occupants, ventilate heat and smoke, establish water supply, secure utilities and check for hidden extension—often at the same time. Adequate staffing makes those simultaneous assignments possible.
SAFETY MESSAGE: Maintain working smoke alarms, sleep with bedroom doors closed and practice two ways out. If fire occurs, close doors as you leave, stay outside and call 911.
SERVICE • PROFESSIONALISM • DEDICATION
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ORIGINAL INCIDENT: March 23, 2025 | City of San Bernardino
This video arrives with Squad 222 at a working fire in a garage attached to a single-story home. Members deploy hose lines and equipment while the company officer completes a full 360-degree survey to identify fire location, extension, hazards and possible rescues.
When conditions allow, firefighters may cool the fire from outside before entry, reducing heat and flashover potential. As additional engines arrive, interior teams advance from uninvolved toward involved areas while truck-company members coordinate ventilation. Quick work contained this fire to the garage, limiting damage to the home. No injuries were reported.
The first minutes require trained judgment, adequate staffing and coordinated companies completing several tasks at once.
SAFETY MESSAGE: Keep the door between an attached garage and home closed, store fuels safely and never disable smoke or heat alarms.
SERVICE • PROFESSIONALISM • DEDICATION
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VIDEO VAULT | March 8, 2025 | San Bernardino County
This archival structure-response video shows career firefighters represented by Local 935 working from Medic Engine 227 while tools, hose lines and protective equipment are organized around the fire building. A well-managed incident scene allows crews to find what they need quickly and supports accountability as assignments change.
Structure firefighting requires many functions at once: fire attack, search, ventilation, water supply, rapid intervention, medical support and command. Maintaining trained crews, reliable apparatus and adequate staffing is what allows those responsibilities to happen together instead of one at a time.
Safety Message of the Day: Test smoke alarms regularly and practice a home escape plan. If fire occurs, get outside, stay outside and call 911 from a safe location.
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#photooftheday | MARINE OPERATIONS
San Bernardino County
Archive image; original capture date unavailable.
The all-risk mission extends beyond roads and structures. Fire-rescue boats give our members a stable working platform for medical access, shoreline incidents, search operations, deploying rescue swimmers and moving personnel or equipment where conventional apparatus cannot reach.
Water-rescue capability requires more than owning a boat. Members must train for changing currents, limited visibility, patient packaging, communications and coordination with law-enforcement and other partner agencies. The vessel, trailer, safety equipment and medical gear also require continuous inspection and maintenance.
Specialized resources are part of the broad service Local 935 members provide throughout San Bernardino County.
SAFETY MESSAGE: Wear a properly fitted life jacket, tell someone your plan and never operate a boat while impaired.
SERVICE • PROFESSIONALISM • DEDICATION
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LOOKING BACK | May 24, 2026 | 18200 block of Lords Rd., Helendale
Our members responded to a fire at an abandoned structure with a history of previous fires. The new fire spotted onto a nearby hillside, creating a simultaneous structure and vegetation-fire problem. Firefighters stopped the vegetation fire at two acres with assistance from MCLB Fire and the BLM California Desert District.
This incident illustrates the North Desert challenge: long travel distances, remote properties and fires that can quickly expand from structures into open vegetation. Mutual aid is essential, but dependable local staffing, apparatus and facilities are also necessary to maintain coverage while crews remain committed.
Local 935 continues advocating for the personnel and capital improvements needed throughout the desert service zones.
SAFETY MESSAGE: Report smoke early, keep clear of abandoned structures and maintain defensible space around occupied properties.
SERVICE • PROFESSIONALISM • DEDICATION
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RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT | STRIKE TEAM 6231C
GANN FIRE | CALAVERAS COUNTY, CA
August 7, 2026
Five San Bernardino County Fire Type 3 brush engines remain deployed as Strike Team 6231C on the Gann Fire near Valley Springs.
Each engine is staffed with 3 firefighters and supported by a Strike Team Leader, for a total of 16 Local 935 members.
The strike team departed Station 164 at approximately 11 p.m. and drove through the night, arriving at incident base before 6 a.m. Crews were then assigned to Division Lima.
During the deployment, some of the work completed by ST6231C has included mobile pumping operations on hot spots and deploying approximately 1,600 feet of hose up a hillside where access by Type 3 apparatus was not possible.
That work highlights the versatility of a Type 3 strike team. These 4WD engines are designed for wildland operations and can provide mobile fire attack, progressive hose lays, patrol, mop-up and structure defense. When terrain prevents apparatus access, crews can extend hose operations beyond the engine to continue working the fireline.
As of August 7, the Gann Fire is 10,374 acres and 40% contained. There are 3,121 personnel assigned, with 18 structures destroyed, 1 confirmed civilian fatality and 1 firefighter injury reported. Fire activity is currently minimal as crews continue strengthening containment lines and mopping up remaining hot spots.
Our members continue working alongside firefighters from agencies throughout the state as suppression and containment operations continue.
Stay safe.
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ORIGINAL INCIDENT: May 24, 2025 | Riviera Marina, Lake Havasu
Our members aboard specialized Boat 18 responded to a fully involved vessel fire as wind threatened to spread flames to neighboring boats. The crew towed the burning craft to a safer location and used deck-mounted hose lines to extinguish the fire within minutes. The operator escaped without injury.
Boat 18 does far more than fight vessel fires. Its crew can reach injured or stranded boaters, support drowning rescues and recoveries, protect shoreline structures, and provide water for fires where hydrants do not exist. These specialized resources extend the all-risk mission across lakes and the Colorado River.
SAFETY MESSAGE: Wear a properly fitted life jacket, maintain marine fire extinguishers and fuel systems, and know how to call for help before leaving the dock.
SERVICE • PROFESSIONALISM • DEDICATION
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#photooftheday | ARCHIVAL INCIDENT PHOTO | 2020–2024 | San Bernardino County
This older County Fire image captures the coordination required during a structure-fire response. Firefighters are visible working around the residence and on the roof while hose lines are positioned across the incident scene and smoke continues to move from the building.
Roof operations can help crews assess conditions and create openings that release heat and smoke when tactics and building conditions allow. At the same time, engine companies advance hose lines, crews search for occupants and command personnel track changing hazards. Every assignment depends on training, communication, adequate staffing and firefighters working together as one coordinated team.
Safety Message of the Day: Maintain working smoke alarms on every level of your home and practice an escape plan with two ways out. Once outside, stay outside and call 911.
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July 29, 2021 | San Bernardino County
A firefighter advances across open terrain during wildland suppression operations. Ground crews work in heat, smoke and uneven terrain to extend hose lines, secure the fire’s edge, protect exposures and prevent rekindles.
Five years later, the fundamentals remain the same: realistic training, clear communication, hydration, dependable equipment and enough firefighters to rotate crews before fatigue creates additional risk.
Wildland incidents can keep resources committed for hours or days. Maintaining coverage for the next emergency requires both effective incident staffing and depth throughout the regional system.
SAFETY MESSAGE: During extreme fire weather, avoid spark-producing activities and follow evacuation warnings early. Keep roads clear for responding equipment.
SERVICE • PROFESSIONALISM • DEDICATION
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