Firefighters are members of disaster relief and rescue groups established by the government or NGOs. It is usually a department set up by the state to specialize in fire fighting and rescue, and it is a profession that stands in the front line of emergency rescue and disaster relief. Its main duties are fire fighting and ambulance service, and it also participates in other rescue work.
As a special rescue profession, firefighters often need special physical, technical and psychological quality training to ensure that they have special physical, technical and psychological quality requirements.
The responsibilities of firefighters mainly include fire fighting, disaster rescue, inspection of fire safety facilities and publicity of fire safety knowledge. At the same time, they also participate in rescue work (such as road rescue and ambulance rescue), serve the people (such as eliminating wild animals and eliminating potential safety hazards), check the safe water sources of water supply companies, and perform internal services (wiring and paperwork).
Firefighters should not only have strong physique and adapt to all kinds of complex and changeable dangerous environments, but also require them to have excellent professional skills, be proficient in fire fighting business theory, fire fighting technology and tactics, have good psychological quality, be emotionally stable, be fearless when encountering danger, and maintain good observation, memory, judgment and thinking ability.