If you have ever thought of becoming a firefighter, this article is for you. Being a firefighter is the best job you can dream of.
Being a firefighter is very challenging. You have new challenges every day, and you never know what can happen in your day of job. You are making new friends, and you'll become a family. Teamwork is the key when you are a firefighter.
Firefighters do a lot of things. Their first job is to put out the fire. They also do prevention of fire. They go to houses in their city and check if the fire alarm is working well and if everything is good to minimize the risk of a fire. They also go on the same call as the paramedics. They are first responders, they take care of the patient until the paramedics arrive.
There is no typical day when you are a firefighter. Sometimes you just stay in the fire station and train yourself, do some formation and clean. Sometimes you just can't sit down because you have a lot of calls for fires and health problems.
Firefighters work at the fire station. Every city has its own fire station, many of them have more than one fire station. Most of the firefighters work at the same fire station, which means that they don't change of workplace every shift. But rookies might change a lot of fire stations in the beginning.
In the province of Quebec, there are different ways to become a firefighter. If you want to be a firefighter in a small city, there is a short formation that is called "Firefighter 1, firefighter2". There's also a DEP to be a firefighter in a bigger city that takes one year. If you want to be a firefighter in the largest cities like Montreal and Quebec City, you have to do a two years DEC. The only place that you can do the two years DEC in the province of Quebec is at Montmorency College.
The salary of a firefighter changes a lot in every city. For the city of Montreal, the estimated salary is $32,80 per hour.
Firefighters need to train for their whole career. They need to stay in good physical shape to be sure they can save lives when they need to. They also have formation for their whole career to improve their techniques and to be the most effective as possible in the urgency calls.
Being a firefighter is a very dangerous career. You risk your own life when you go into a house on fire. That is why the formation is so important. You have to stay vigilant because you never know what will happen when you are in a fire.
There is almost no chance that firefighters will be replaced by robots because they need to be the quickest as possible to the fire. There are also methods and strategies to use when you are on a fire to attack it the proper way. Robots can't see and adjust their methods to attack the fire the right way.
A firefighter can retire at age 50. One firefighter out of two refuses to leave at this age because he likes his job too much to stop doing it.
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