As I was sitting at the dinner table chatting with a few fellow firefighters at the station, we could hear the on duty battalion chief giving the new employees a tour of the station. Some of them were full time, and others were part time paid on premise. They all came by and got a…
You have passed your Firefighter 1 course, probably a few others as well. Finally you’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in your fire service training, and you are coming up to the end of your FF2 training. Whether you are going through your own department’s fire academy or you are going…
Finally passed your firefighter 1 course, passed the firefighter 1 written exam as well as the practical and you feel good. Now you are getting ready to take your driver operator course. Most people will also take firefighter 2 before they begin their driver operator courses ( pumper & aerial). This is the way I…
As I’m sitting here talking with some of the interns around the dinner table one day, I started remembering how nervous I was about taking the Firefighter 1 written exam. I remember feeling that I was never taught certain things, because some of the questions that were asked, I have never heard of before, Just…
