Fire department № 15 Darnytskyi region

Fire department № 15 Darnytskyi region

Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations.

The fire service, or fire and rescue service, also known in some countries as the fire brigade or fire department, are some of the emergency services.

The goals of firefighting are (in order of priority): personal safety, saving victims' lives, saving property, and protecting the environment. As such, the skills required for safe operations are regularly practiced during training evaluations throughout a firefighter's career.

Firefighters work closely with other emergency response agencies, most particularly local and state police departments.

Fire fighting has some basic skills: prevention, self preservation, rescue, preservation of property, and fire control. Firefighting is further broken down into skills which include size-up, extinguishing, ventilation, salvage and overhaul.

In addition, a major duty of fire services is the regular inspection of buildings to ensure they are up to the current building fire codes, which are enforced so that a building can sufficiently resist fire spread, potential hazards are located, and to ensure that occupants can be safely evacuated, commensurate with the risks involved.

Fire department communications play a critical role in that successful outcome.

Fire department communications include the methods by which the public can notify the communications center of an emergency, the methods by which the center can notify the proper fire fighting forces, and the methods by which information is exchanged at the scene.