More Good Fire

Expanding Access. Increasing Safety. Building Capacity.

Access to proper personal protective equipment (PPE) should never be a barrier to participation in prescribed fire or wildfire training. Through grant funding and partner support from the California Fire Foundation, PG&E, Wolfpack Gear, and the Healthy Forest Alliance Foundation, we have established a dedicated Fire Practitioner Personal Protective Gear Cache to strengthen safety and expand access statewide.

This gear cache includes essential wildland PPE: Nomex shirts and pants, leather gloves, hard hats, eye protection, fire shelters, line packs, and other required safety equipment. Designed to support both training and operational deployments, the cache allows new and underserved practitioners to participate in Good Fire Training Network courses and field projects without the upfront financial burden of purchasing full PPE kits.

The program plays a critical role in workforce development. Many aspiring fire practitioners—especially volunteers, community members, and Resource Conservation District partners—face cost barriers when entering the fire service. By providing compliant, inspected, and ready-to-deploy PPE, we remove that obstacle while maintaining nationally aligned safety standards.

During prescribed fire training events, wildfire assignments, and cooperative burns, the PPE cache ensures participants meet operational requirements while reinforcing a professional safety culture. All gear is tracked, maintained, and issued through structured accountability procedures to ensure reliability and compliance.

This investment is about more than equipment—it is about equity, opportunity, and resilience. By expanding access to proper protective gear, we are growing a qualified and safety-focused workforce capable of implementing good fire and responding to wildfire incidents across California and beyond.

Stronger gear. Stronger practitioners. Stronger communities.