Future Firefighters Train At Camp Parks

June 17, 2007 California - The second-to-last lesson for 32 firefighter recruits nearing their graduation: In a wildfire, wind changes everything. That's why the recruits from the Alameda County Fire Department, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District and the Moraga-Orinda Fire Department spent two days in 100-degree weather at the Camp Parks military facility starting grass fires and halting them in their tracks. The course at the firefighter academy, run ...