First 90 Days
As mentioned in the admissions section, your first 90 days is the time for you to shine. This should be representative of your very best. And it should highlight how you expect to perform once you become a firefighter.
During your 90 day probation period you are expected to learn a lot, show up to calls, and contribute to the best of your abilities.
You are not expected to:
- Run up to the scene of a crash and pull victims out of cars
- Run into a burning building and save a dog
- Lead the scene of a burning forrest
- Rappel down a cliff to save a stranded climber
- Drive a boat into raging flood waters to save swept away victims
- Search through a neighborhood to find run away kids
You will have the opportunity to do these exciting roles later in your career.
During the 90 days we expect you to:
- Learn about basic tools and their location on each of the trucks
- Understand what sorts of calls we deal with most
- Understand which truck gets deployed first for each type of call
- Learn how to manage traffic flow at a crash
- Observe firefighters working a crash
- Always stay next to and follow a more senior person on scene (so that you can learn)
- Fetch tools from trucks that are needed by qualified firefighters
- Get really fast at putting your PPE on (personal protection equipment)
- Drive to the fire station safely
- Observe how people speak on the radio (you won’t have a radio until you are voted in)
- Start studying and taking your ICS (incident command system) exams (super easy)
- Learn how to extricate a person from a car (cut doors, break glass, support the vehicle)
- Learn about structure fires (Essentials 7 app has all you need to know)
- Learn how grass and forest fires are approached
- Start to learn how to drive and deploy the small brush trucks and get qualified on them
Most importantly, be respectful and be helpful!