The California Fire Foundation, a non-profit organization based in California that assists families of fallen firefighters, firefighters, and the communities they protect, has announced a plan to expand the California Firefighters Memorial Wall in 2024. The current wall has run out of space.
The expansion aims to honor and preserve the memory of fallen firefighters across the state. The announcement marks the beginning of a 12-million-dollar fundraising effort to support the expansion. Right now, there are the names of over 15-hundred heroic fallen firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty since California became a state in 1850. The expansion will increase capacity for the names of 46-hundred additional firefighters over the next 150 years. The Foundation has also launched the Firefighters Memorial Oral History Project to collect stories of fallen firefighters from all over California.
