You like helping people. You want to save lives. You know that saving lives is more than just pouring water on a fire, it's responding to emergency situations in a calm, composed and practical manner. Your positive, can-do attitude makes all the difference. You use your skill to help control, extinguish and respond to all things emergency related in our lives. Without you, we'd have no one to save our lives. You like that.

Fire fighters are controllers, extinguishers and responders to all things emergency related. Firefighters put out fires and rescue people in danger. They may provide medical assistance. Forest firefighters work only on fires in forests and rangelands. City fire fighters handle all other fires

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Postsecondary training
Apprenticeship Available
No
Fire science or Fire protection technology
Associate

Where You Can Go

Blue Mountain Community College: Website
Central Oregon Community College: Website
Chemeketa Community College: Website
Clackamas Community College: Website
Clatsop Community College: Website
Portland Community College: Website
Rogue Community College: Website
Southwestern Oregon Community College: Website
Treasure Valley Community College: Website
Umpqua Community College: Website
Job Corps: Website
Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries - Apprenticeship Division: Website
Work site training is typically required. Talk to potential employers about the specifics for each position.:

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