International Technical Committee for the Prevention and Extinction of Fire
CTIF was founded in 1900 in Paris for encouraging and promoting co-operation among fire fighters and other experts in fire and rescue throughout the world.

Nowadays CTIF has 50 member countries and 35 associate members. Its international conferences are well known from Boston to Lisbon and Oslo to Sidney.

International fire brigades competitions are organised by CTIF every four years: they are attended by more than 3.000 fire fighters from around the world.

CTIF also contributes to the development of youth fire brigades: in Europe, 900.000 young people -this figure has doubled over the past ten years- are involved in these activities that aim at giving them an overview of rescue and fire fighting skills, leading many of them to eventually join the fire service.

Besides CTIF develops comprehensive world fire statistics by publishing annual reports which offer up-to-date data on fire issues.

In short: CTIF is an international fire and rescue competence and information network, representing five million fire fighters who protect a population of one billion people every day.