Profession Fire fighter

Fire fighters respond to fire alarms and other emergency calls, control and extinguish fires, protect life and property and conduct rescue efforts.

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Personality Type

Respond to fire alarms and other emergency calls, such as road accidents, rail and air crashes, industrial accidents, spillages of dangerous substances, bomb incidents and natural disasters.
Dress with equipment such as fire resistant clothing and breathing apparatus, and drive or crew fire fighting vehicles to travel to incident sites.
Search, rescue and evacuate people and animals from burning buildings, accident sites and other dangerous situations.
Administer first aid and other medical assistance to injured persons.
Control and extinguish fires using firefighting equipment, such as ladders, hose pipes, pumps, axes and fire extinguishing appliances.
Assess fires and situations and report conditions to superiors to receive instructions, using e.g. radios.
Salvage goods from damaged premises, and clean up, check and make safe the incident site, e.g. by removing dangerous chemical substances.
Dive to locate and lift objects from under water.
Carry out practice drills and take part in physical and other training.
Inspect, clean and maintain firefighting equipment.
Inform and educate the public on fire prevention.