The place that I am going to interning at is the Escondido Fire Department at Station Number 1
The typical work day is filling reports, checking inventory of the fire rigs, cleaning the station and responding to calls when they get them. If your late you will get payment markdowns and a red flag will go on your file.The dress code varies; Class A uniform is for promotions/ graduations, Class B is for meetings/ special events, Class C is for going on calls/ normal uniform. The fire suit is used for fires and road accidents. My experience today was very fun and I learned a lot through out the day. I went on calls, cleaned/ organized the rig (fire truck). This professional world will be very busy as-well as being very productive. My favorite call was when I went into a kitten fire and help put it out. My first overall impressions were very good, they were all super nice, goofy, and really serious when they are on the call. In this work place they do expect you too be and act professional and give the fire fighters a good reputation in the community. Some skills that you will have to have it to be able to adapt to a certain scenario very quickly and to be able to react quickly.
So for the fire call that we got, I was super exited rushing out of the station going towards the house with the kitchen that was on fire. When we got there there was a lot of smoke outside and they told me to put on my fire gear, as I was doing that the other fire fighters were going into the fire. Then I went in the fire and used the fire fan which blew out the smoke so that the fire fighters can see better. So for the second call we responded to an old lady with a reported head injury. But the thing is, is that she is very addicted to pain medications and she fake called us. But her apartment looked like a very sloppy house with old food and cat poop all over the place (it was harder to breath in there then the fire). And then we had our 3rd call (which is the last interesting call) so this guy was so drunk because of depression (being homeless) and stepped out of the bus and face planted on the curb, cracked his head open and was knocked out for 5-7 min long. So we will see what happens when internship starts!!
The typical work day is filling reports, checking inventory of the fire rigs, cleaning the station and responding to calls when they get them. If your late you will get payment markdowns and a red flag will go on your file.The dress code varies; Class A uniform is for promotions/ graduations, Class B is for meetings/ special events, Class C is for going on calls/ normal uniform. The fire suit is used for fires and road accidents. My experience today was very fun and I learned a lot through out the day. I went on calls, cleaned/ organized the rig (fire truck). This professional world will be very busy as-well as being very productive. My favorite call was when I went into a kitten fire and help put it out. My first overall impressions were very good, they were all super nice, goofy, and really serious when they are on the call. In this work place they do expect you too be and act professional and give the fire fighters a good reputation in the community. Some skills that you will have to have it to be able to adapt to a certain scenario very quickly and to be able to react quickly.
So for the fire call that we got, I was super exited rushing out of the station going towards the house with the kitchen that was on fire. When we got there there was a lot of smoke outside and they told me to put on my fire gear, as I was doing that the other fire fighters were going into the fire. Then I went in the fire and used the fire fan which blew out the smoke so that the fire fighters can see better. So for the second call we responded to an old lady with a reported head injury. But the thing is, is that she is very addicted to pain medications and she fake called us. But her apartment looked like a very sloppy house with old food and cat poop all over the place (it was harder to breath in there then the fire). And then we had our 3rd call (which is the last interesting call) so this guy was so drunk because of depression (being homeless) and stepped out of the bus and face planted on the curb, cracked his head open and was knocked out for 5-7 min long. So we will see what happens when internship starts!!