Abilities Flashcards
Recognize the characteristics of extreme fire behaviour to ensure firefighter safety.
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Maintain situational awareness during stressful situations.
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Think clearly and remain in control during stressful circumstances and emergency operations.
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Be dependable, reliable, responsible, and fulfill obligations.
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Analyze emergency situations, and react quickly, calmly, and effectively, giving due regard to hazards and circumstances.
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Recognize life safety hazards and make proper decisions to mitigate these hazards.
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Engage in strenuous physical activity, which under emergency situations may require long working hours under emotional stress.
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Take command and remain in command of an emergency situation under stress.
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Give appropriate fire-ground and emergency scene commands
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Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships.
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Administer cardiovascular pulmonary resuscitation in medical emergencies.
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Lead and direct personnel during all risk emergencies (residential structure fires, wildland fires, earthquakes) within the area of influence of state and county resources.
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Function as a positive role model for subordinate personnel, leading by example, maintaining open lines of communication, and providing a work environment which builds a safe effective team.
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Adequate administer emergency medical care to ill or injured persons.
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Participate in physical fitness programs and comply with department medical and fitness requirements.
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Use critical thinking (apply logic and reason) to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to problems.
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Safely use and maintain firefighting tools and equipment.
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Create and maintain a healthy work environment that is free of discrimination and harassment.
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Effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
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Read and interpret road maps, street signs, reference manuals, training materials, policies, procedures, reports, and correspondence
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Lead and direct personnel activities and daily operations
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Analyze information and use logic to address work-related issues and problems
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Assign, direct, track, and evaluate operational resources and their effectiveness
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Manage time effectively, multitask, and prioritize assignments in order to meet objectives.
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Operate radios, telephones and different types of computer equipment.
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Safely coordinate operations with air and ground resources to maximize effective use.
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Resolve interpersonal problems or conflicts between personnel in order to maintain and improve working and living relationships
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Calm emotionally distressed or distraught patients, victims, relatives, friends, co-workers, and bystanders at an incident.
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Provide training and development to firefighters and other personnel in firefighting, medical care, and rescue activities.
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Carry, maneuver, raise, and lower various types of ladders (straight, extension)
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Prepare clear and concise reports (fire monthly budgets, Cal Card, personnel)
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Develop written documentation (memos, letters, reports, procedures, technical manuals) to ensure accurate and complete information
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Lead and direct the care and maintenance of facility, apparatus, and grounds.
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Determine the need for critical incident stress debriefings and implement procedures as appropriate
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Solve general mathematical problems (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
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Demonstrate, develop, and implement occupational injury and illness programs.
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Edit written materials (memos, letters, reports, procedures, technical manuals) to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information presented.
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Maintain logs and other periodic and activity reports.
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Perform preventative maintenance and minor repairs on mobile equipment.
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Locate and determine the origin and cause of fires
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Use computer software (mapmaking, Word, Excel, Power Point)
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Perform general building and grounds maintenance and repairs (plumbing, carpentry, landscaping)
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Conduct and document defensible space inspections (LE100, PRC 4291)
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