anyone here a firefighter?

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1.Make sure your background is clean.Clean means no DUI,Drugs,excessive speeding ticket,criminal history ect ect.
2.Choose which department you are interested to work at.Look it up at the county website.Once you are interested with their benefits and pension,visit the station.Talk to them get to know more abt the dept.
3.Most paid dept right now requires you to be an EMT-I.SOme dept will provide the schooling,but you will have more chances to be accepted if you already have ur certification especially if you are competing with abt 700++ applicants.
4.Start workng out.It's not as easy as it looks on tv or movie.It's an easy job 80% of the time but once the 20% comes,you have to be prepared to be doing the most extensive job.


Hope this help.

1. i have no background issues and haven't ever done a drug, so this won't be a problem.
2.i don't really have a preference of where i want to work. atlanta area would be nice but that is not too important to me, just want a job doing this.
3. so is the emt cert the most important? anything else i should look into before applying places?
4. i am working out currently. while i am sure it isn't easy, this is not a huge concern of mine.

any other advice? i guess i am just not sure where and how to start this process.

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1. i have no background issues and haven't ever done a drug, so this won't be a problem.
2.i don't really have a preference of where i want to work. atlanta area would be nice but that is not too important to me, just want a job doing this.
3. so is the emt cert the most important? anything else i should look into before applying places?
4. i am working out currently. while i am sure it isn't easy, this is not a huge concern of mine.

any other advice? i guess i am just not sure where and how to start this process.

1. With no background issues makes you a better candiate for hire because they won't expect anything criminal out of you. So that's a -very- good thing, good job on keeping your nose clean.

2. You may want to have an idea of where you want to work because alot of factors play into it. Call Volume, Pay Rate, Equipment, etc. etc. etc. MAinly the bigger counties, in terms of population, have a bigger department and therefore a better chance of employment because they have spaces to fill. But if there is no preference may I suggest: Atlanta, Clayton, Gwinnett, or Dekalb.

3. Most places (Clayton, Henry, Gwinnett, Dekalb), you will become EMT-I certified to continue employment but all of these places, will -train- you to be a EMT-I, so they will take care of it for you...you just have to past the test. Then again, if you wish to go ahead and take a EMT course and pass before you get hired on anywhere, it makes you -alot- more buyable. Then again...why pay for training, when you can get it for free.

4. Staying a shape is the best thing you can do. This is a phyiscally demanding job and, personally, if I don't think that you can handle the job, I don't want you to fight fire next to me. Everyone in your company has a duty to make sure that everyone goes home at the end of the shift and you staying in a shape is the best thing you can do because one day, God-willing, you'll need to drag a brother out of the fire...and if you go down you want to know the guy next to you can do the same thing.