Firefighter

This application is for the test date of: August 23, 2025, at 9:00AM. Applications and all documents are due by August 15, 2025, at 11:59 PM. 

• Responds to fire and emergency calls by completing fire suppression activities for residential and commercial structures, vehicles, rubbish and grass areas, operating apparatus, removing hazards from emergency scenes, rescuing persons from fire and emergency scenes, utilizing fire extinguishing equipment to suppress fires and documenting actions when appropriate.
• Provides emergency medical services by responding and/or driving ambulance to emergency calls, assessing the medical needs of patients, determining best immediate treatment, administering advanced life support, utilizing advanced medical skills, operating life-saving equipment, driving apparatus to emergency scenes, assisting patients to emergency centers, completing medical reports, stocking medical supplies and documenting all services provided.
• Maintains fire-fighting and paramedic equipment and fire station property by performing preventative maintenance on equipment and machinery, ensuring apparatus is operating properly and safely, determining if problematic or faulty parts exist, replacing faulty parts, completing lawn activities such as mowing lawn, assisting with fire station cleaning activities and documenting maintenance actions when appropriate.
• Educates the community about fire safety by responding to citizen inquiries and questions on fire safety, presenting fire safety tips to local schools and businesses, demonstrating appropriate personal actions during fires or emergencies, illustrating proper fire extinguisher use and first aid procedures and assisting with public tours of the fire station when necessary.
• Assist in conducting fire inspections, by visiting various City structures, observing and investigating the premises, determining compliance with fire safety codes and ordinances and documenting findings.
• Maintains current medical and firefighting certifications by participating in continuing education related to medical, fire fighting, driving and computer skills and completing appropriate paperwork for training received.
• Performs the job by following established standard operating procedures and/or policies. The employee may choose the appropriate procedure or policy. Performance is reviewed periodically.

• Must have high school diploma/GED
• Must be between the ages of 18 and 36 on the day of the written exam
• Must be certified Firefighter/EMT OR certified Paramedic to take entrance level civil service examination.  Basic Firefighter certification and/or Paramedic certification must be obtained in the time frame provided by the Fire Chief.
•  Must be able to pass written exam, oral boards and physical agility examinations. 
• Must have valid driver's license
• Must have driving record sufficient for coverage by City's auto liability carrier
• Work requires broad professional and technical knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature in fire.
•  Knowledge is normally acquired through certification as an EMT/Paramedic with the Texas Department of Health and completion of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection requirements for certification at the firefighter basic level. 

• Paramedic certification is strongly preferred

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• Considerable knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative or technical nature in fire
• Knowledge in functioning as a lead worker performing essentially the same work as those directed, and includes overseeing work quality, training instructing and scheduling work.

• Ability to read papers, periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
• Ability to deal with system of real numbers; practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios/proportions and measurement. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
• Ability to write reports, prepare business letters, expositions, and summaries with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.  Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.