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| This position involves attending the Fire Academy required for entry into the fire fighting profession. Recruits are required to attend an approved college and satisfactorily earn the minimum number of semester credit hours and successfully complete the other training requirements necessary to graduate -from the Fire Academy- Courses taken must be credited towards a degree in Fire Science. Upon successful completion of the Fire Academy a Fire Fighter Recruit shall be automatically converted to Fire Fighter I |
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This is routine fire suppression, prevention, rescue, and ambulance operations work in combating, extinguishing, and preventing fires. Work involves duties of protecting life and property under the direction and supervision of a Fire Service Specialist or above.
Employees in this class learn and participate in the operation of fire equipment and apparatus and perform hazardous tasks under emergency conditions which may require strenuous exertion under such handicaps as smoke, collapsed structures, intense heat, toxic environments, cramped surroundings, or under the possible threat of being infected with communicable diseases during ambulance operations- Specific orders and directions are given by superior officers, however, the work requires individual employees to
show initiative and a thorough understanding of fire equipment and apparatus and rescue and ambulance methods and procedures. Work in this class is reviewed through on-the-scene observations, frequent inspections, examinations, discussions, and submission of reports. |
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