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MY DREAM JOB- FIREFIGHTER
A firefighter (also known as a fireman) is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting,
primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian or natural
populations, and to rescue people from dangerous situations, like collapsed or burning
buildings or crashed vehicles.
The complexity of modern industrialized life with a greater prominence of hazards
has created an increase in the skills needed in firefighting technology and a broadening of the
firefighter-rescuer's remit. They sometimes provide emergency medical services, for
example. The fire service, or fire and rescue service, also known in some countries as the fire
brigade or fire department, is one of the three main emergency services. Firefighting and
firefighters have become ubiquitous around the world, from wildlands to urban areas, and
aboard ships. According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the English word firefighter has
been used since 1903. In recent decades it has become the preferred term, replacing fireman,
since more women serve as firefighters, and also because the term fireman can have other
meanings, including someone who sets, stokes, or tends fires, especially in designated
fireplaces – the opposite of the firefighting role.
The Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (Romanian:
Inspectoratul General pentru Situa
ţii de Urgenţă - IGSU) is a structure of the Ministry of
Administration and Interior created on December 15, 2004, by merging the Civil Defense
Command (Comandamentul Protec
ţiei Civile) with the General Inspectorate of the Military
Firefighters Corps (Inspectoratul General al Corpului Pompierilor Militari).
Fire fighting has some basic skills: prevention, self-preservation, rescue, preservation
of property, basic first aid and fire control. Firefighting is further broken down into skills
which include size-up, extinguishing, ventilation, salvage and overhaul. Wildland
firefighting includes size up, containment, extinguishment, and mop up. Search and Rescue,
which has already been mentioned, is performed early in any fire scenario and many times is
in unison with extinguishing and ventilation.
I would like to become a firefighter because I think that the most valuable thing in life
is to help the others. I want people around me to be safe, to feel protected and important. It is
a courageous and as well a great thing to risk your life saving the others’.
Toma Bogdan