What does a fireman do, on an average day?

Question

Only people that actually know, please answer. i.e. - if your a fireman, or have one in the family, friend, or something.

Anything interesting about them, that most people don't know, would be great.

Answer 1

I am a fireman in my hometown and an average day consists of station duties like sweeping the bays, washing the trucks, mopping the floors, cleaning dishes, and basically keeping everything professional looking. But if we have a fire, wreck, emr call, or any of that the station duties go out of the window until we get back. Although it might sound boring we always have to watch our backs for the ever so loveable prank. Also at our department we are dispatchers for the police officers so that adds a little bit of strain on our jobs. Then after all that the probie usually gets to watch the radio for a while and the rest of us will work out or throw the football around. Another thing we deal with here is volunteer firemen and explorers(junior firemen ages 14-17) so we get to deal with the next generation which is fun because we are their training officer's. The full/part time/volunteer firemen have a monthly training meeting and get down to the real stuff like search and rescue, hose mazes, fire suppression, and continuing education classes. The explorers usually get the old and outdated turnouts to practice putting them on, and get a little experience with scba's and little stuff like search patterns so we can get their feet wet with what they are going to be experiencing if they want to stick with it. It is different working with young teenagers cause they are always complaining and wanting to quit when things get hard but you can always persuade them to stick with it so they are real unpredictable. Very enjoyable and fullfilling job being a fireman here.

Answer 2

Well, fires don't happen every day, so a lot of their time is spent training and mantaining the vehicles used by firemen. And if you didn't know already, Volunteer firemen get to live in a condo sort of place with games (billiards, ping-pong, ect.). And, as we all know, there is a big fraction of their time when they are fighting fires, but they work out and train almost as much (a full fireman suit can weigh around 20-40 lbs., they need to be strong enough to break down doors while wearing the anti-fire armour)

Answer 3

My uncle used to be a fireman but I hadn't really asked him details about his job.

He explained to me though that they have a 48-hour shift which is continuous day and night, and then another group takes over for the same period.

In their work while in the fire station, they make themselves ready for action in case of fire. They do some training, they make their firefighting equipment ready, and they just rest or sleep if there are no fire. They prepare their food there just like in a boarding house and live like on stand by pay whenever there are no fires.

Other jobs included some reporting work and inspection of various facility as assigned for compliance to building code.

Answer 4

well, I am a fireman in north Texas and my shift starts at 0700. we sit around till about 0730 and drink coffee and talk to the shift that is going off about what happened the day before. then we check out our apparatus, clean the station, and then work out. go to the store and get lunch and dinner. come back get ready to cook lunch. after lunch we watch TV. till dinner time. all of this while making calls going to training classes, and doing crap admin needs done. most people don't know that most of us are just big kids that love to play on fire trucks and run the siren. If you need a detailed answer of everything we do let me know.

Scott

Answer 5

They have their hard work cut out for them when there is a big fire or something. However...one of my uncles is a firefighter, and a good bit of the slow time he just would lay around and read a book or something. I suppose the main factor is really where you live and how busy of a location you work at. If it's not a busy one...then they won't be doing much of anything apart from exercises, drills, cleaning the truck and equipment, etc.

Answer 6

Be a class clown

Answer 7

they go out and do safety assessments at workplaces
thay also have training days sometimes

Answer 8

They wait for a fire while looking hot!

Answer 9

The same question pops up again

Answer 10

the opposite of arsonist!