Firefighters

What Does a Firefighters Do?

Control and extinguish fires or respond to emergency situations where life, property, or the environment is at risk. Duties may include fire prevention, emergency medical service, hazardous material response, search and rescue, and disaster assistance.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Rescue survivors from burning buildings, accident sites, and water hazards.
• 2Dress with equipment such as fire-resistant clothing and breathing apparatus.
• 3Assess fires and situations and report conditions to superiors to receive instructions, using two-way radios.
• 4Move toward the source of a fire, using knowledge of types of fires, construction design, building materials, and physical layout of properties.
• 5Respond to fire alarms and other calls for assistance, such as automobile and industrial accidents.
• 6Create openings in buildings for ventilation or entrance, using axes, chisels, crowbars, electric saws, or core cutters.
• 7Drive and operate fire fighting vehicles and equipment.
• 8Inspect fire sites after flames have been extinguished to ensure that there is no further danger.

Required Skills

• Critical Thinking
• Active Listening
• Speaking
• Active Learning
• Monitoring
• Affiliated Computer Services ACS FIREHOUSE
• Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
• Email software
• Fire incident reporting systems
• Geographic information system GIS software
• Incident command system ICS software
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook

Firefighters Salary