I chose to work here because its closer to my house and it is a very fun department/ environment, and all of the guys are nice and fun to be with. A typical work day is to show up before the start of the next shift (with is 8:00am) and making sure you load up all your fire gear and anything else that you might need for the day, as well as do an inventory check of the fire engine to make sure all of the proper tools are there. Then the rest of the day is just running calls and doing chores when needed. It is very important to get along with everyone because this job requires you too be humble and respectful to your co-workers and the people that you are treating out on call. What I personally recommend in order to be successful in this career is to get a bachelors degree, and to be very humble and respectful as well as just being open to critique because no one is perfect and everyone can improve.
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One question that I have about my internship is that how do these guys stay awake because they run calls all day and through the night!? They only way I can connect this with school is that you need to be a good communicator and our school helps us with that. There has been a lot of interesting things that have happened during my internship so far but I am not allowed to talk about them due to patient confidentiality. There mission is to protect and serve the community, and put the community first. I am starting to get the flow of the things that I need to do help out the fire fighters, like on calls and at the station. I drive myself to my internship and the commute is very easy because I live 10 min away from the fire station.