Camp Blaze is a pilot project sponsored by Women in the Fire Service, a national nonprofit organization committed to maximizing women's involvement in the fire service through education, networking, advocacy, and policy development.The mission of Blaze is to develop, support, and implement an annual camp for qualified young women to learn about the fire service and to have a great time while they're at it.

Young women will learn, among many other things: 

• rappelling
• using self-contained breathing apparatus
• search and rescue
• aerial ladder climbing
• teamwork

Members of the Camp Blaze Founding Directors represent the Seattle Fire Deparment, San Francisco Fire Department, Boulder Colorado Fire Department, San Diego Fire and Life Safety, Fort Worth Fire Department, Oakland Fire Department, and the Tacoma Fire Department.

Camp Blaze 2007 has been a great success. Thanks to all our sponsors, volunteers, and campers for making it happen. See some of the pictures from camp this year here.

Our plan is to host the next Camp Blaze in summer of 2009. The application period will open on this Web site in January, 2009. The application has a $25 fee, but the actual camp is free. If you are out of the area, you must pay your transportation cost to get to the Seattle area.

Alison Greene

Our dear friend, San Francisco firefighter Alison Greene, passed away in December of 2006.

Alison was a Camp Blaze Crew Leader in 2001, a Camp Blaze Director in 2002, and a volunteer staff member in 2003.



We will miss her.