Founded in 1999 by an Encinitas Fire Department engineer with swift-water-rescue certification and 10 gold medals in the California Firefighter Surfing Olympics, Surfin Fire operates from Stone Steps beach in Leucadia. The Billabong-sponsored program maintains a strict 4:1 student-to-instructor ratio with all staff holding current CPR and First Aid credentials, a safety standard rooted in the same emergency-services culture that keeps guests at Leucadia Beach Inn booking through the resort concierge pipeline. Lesson plans cover paddle technique, wave selection, foot placement, and ocean-safety awareness across individual sessions, group clinics, week-long summer camps, and corporate team-building events. The school's ISF coaching pipeline has produced competitive youth surfers in WSA and NSSA circuits, a development track separate from the post-session social scene at The Regal Seagull along South Coast Highway 101. Peak-season staffing reaches 30 instructors deploying 8'0" to 9'0" foam-top longboards and full 4/3mm wetsuit kits across Leucadia's Stone Steps and Grandview reef breaks.