Given that there’s no room for mistakes during actual emergency situations, firefighter jobs require a vigorous and extensive training. You can’t add more fire to a situation where someone’s life is on great danger already just because you messed something up. Firefighters are often considered as real life heroes give that they would also respond to any emergency situation. Saving other people’s lives or property puts their own life at great danger which is definitely a very tough thing to do especially if these people are not even related to them.
People always get the wrong impression about firefighter jobs because they thing that they are just slacking off if there’s no fire incident but the truth is, this job has so much to do. During a fire emergency call, firefighters would immediately respond and make sure that they put off the fire using different techniques that they have learned during the training. Other people may think that it’s just easy to hold a nozzle and point it directly to the fire but in reality, it requires a lot of strength and you need to follow a certain technique in doing so. Even some of the strongest people won’t be able to handle a fire hose properly without proper training. After the fire has been put out, firefighters are responsible in conducting an investigation with regards to the cause of fire and they are supposed t make a report about the incident that just happened.
You might have also seen firefighters render first aid to victims of certain situations because aside from carrying firefighting gears, they also bring first aid equipments with them. On this matter, it is definitely important for a firefighter to be trained on how to render first aid properly which is why during the fire brigade recruitment, they would always prefer hiring an applicant with a first aid training or much preferably a certified Emergency Medical Technician.
Aside from those things mentioned above, firefighter jobs should help the paramedics in ensuring the safety of the victim. Since you can’t also prevent having curious people during emergency situations, firefighters should also control the crowd so that people who will be conducting the rescue can efficiently move around.
At the end of the day after responding to an emergency, firefighters should do their own after care so that will be able to check if there’s something missing or broken in their equipments. Maintaining the cleanliness of each tool helps you ensure that it’s going to last and function properly as well.