Why do you want to be a firefighter?
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I have been fairly lost in life ever since graduating high school, I felt I was rushed to college and did not have a solid footing in a direction in life. I’ve been treading through college as an it major but I have been really lost and I was looking into trade and emergency jobs. While looking at them I have become really connected to Firefighting , I have always admired the way of life a firefighter lives and respected their dedication to the community they protect. I have always been a hands on person and never a book Person. I feel I will have trouble trying to break this to my parents since if I do decide on this path I will be first gen firefighter in my whole family and leaving college to pursue this career. I’ve watched your videos so much recently and have learned a lot from them. Thank you for providing this type of information and I hope you continue to do so.
I have been a fire fighter for 44 years. I had 2 uncles in the fire service. When I was 15 there was a family of 5 that perished in a house fire. I asked my uncles WHY? They said they didnt have the correct of enough equipment. I wanted to see if I could help change that. I got hired on the department,I got trained and soon after three years I became chief. I was fortunate to get new gear for all the firefighters,increase membership,build a new firehouse and purchase 2 new trucks. I always say right place right time. I had a wonderful relationship with the town and township and great personnel t work with.
this is amazing and honestly I hope to be able to do this one day. Props to you man :)
Great. I feel deep respect from you. Thank you for being a wonderful person and both firefighter.
Good on you sir
Firefighter was supposed to be my first job in the Air Force, but I left for BMT early and became a fighter jet mechanic instead. Retired from service 23 years later and went on a ride-along with a FF/P brother in law; was instantly hooked and went volunteer. This was a year ago, got brought on full-time this past December. I’m a month from turning 44. If you can hack it, it is never too late!
Love the channel, Mike! I still have lots to learn about this job and the videos help immensely.
Hello Air Force, I took our firefighting essentials course at fifty five years old. That was eighteen years ago, and today, I still drive our engine, and rescue. Last week I helped pump out several basements. There is always something a volunteer of any age can do.
An old Marine.
I’ve been an active member for my local volunteer department for a month now and I’m liking it so far also liking all my fellow members too I’m at the dept my grandfather volunteered at
Mike, I was just informed that I made the eligibility list on my first attempt. The fire chief said that is a rare feat. It would not have been possible without your dedication to helping people get hired on. Thank you for all that you do! It is to you that I owe my success.
I’m so glad to see a new video!!!!
If y’all haven’t been following his guide, DO IT. My first time ever applying to the fire department and I got in to the one and only one I applied for 🙏🏽
I definitely owe being hired with my department to you Mike! Thanks for everything you do, and whenever I have someone tell me they're interested in becoming a firefighter, I always point them to you. Your interview videos along with the written prep absolutely helped me and many others. Again, thanks for everything!
I want to say thanks so much, I graduated from the reserve academy for the department where I attend college last June and I’ve been leaning new things every shift on how to be a better firefighter and emt. And I’m excited to work my first 24’s during the summer.
You definitely help out so much. I just finished my chiefs interview with Clark County Fire Department in Las Vegas last week I’m super excited/nervous to hear my results. But having your videos really helped me hone in on my prep so thank you mike i really appreciate you. I hope i make this academy, but if i don’t i will just keep on working and again thank you for all your help and i hope you have a great day
I just can’t thank you enough for making these videos, they have helped me immensely. Passed my written exam, now awaiting results of online oral exam. But I feel confident and motivated because of your content, and doing it for free no less! You truly are a hero!
Thanks Mike for all the great tips over the last couple years and the great videos. I used your advice to score a CJO for one of the Biggest Department in North America. Cheers from across the lake. 🤟🏽
Thanks to all of your helpful videos I got a conditional offer from the top of my list department today! Thanks so much!
Im glad you are upoading frequently again, I dont have anyone around me that has been in the fire service, so i go to you for answers instead.
Thanks for this Mike
I actually dogsit for a family friend while he’s on shift. He recommended firefighting to me because I’ve always struggled with academics.
It checks all my boxes too. I love long shifts, the feeling of service, anything medical, anything high-energy, that sort of thing. The amount of education needed for the return pay is great to me!
Hey Mike I wanted to let you know that I am testing for pittsburgh here this month and I have been watching your videos for a very long time. Wish me luck! Also God bless
@truckingoperator
Hi, I’m James
First off best of luck with your testing.
I’m looking to becoming a firefighter in Pittsburgh as well and struggling to find information or where to go to find out more information on how testing works here in Pittsburgh. If you have any resources to point me towards that would be great.
@ephraimjamesglick2197 absolutely man, if we could message directly on here that would be better but basically sometime in April they don't have a exact date yet but the test will open. You have to go to pittsburgh pa careers, essentially find the website for what the city is hiring for. Apply for firefighter. Then we will have a civil service test and a pt test on a later date, if you CZcams pittsburgh firefighter test 2016 on CZcams it will give you the full pt test
@@ephraimjamesglick2197 any other questions feel free to comment brother
@@truckingoperator
Appreciate the information…
Yes I have been checking the Pittsburgh website just haven’t seen anything open up within firefighter so wasn’t sure if I was missing something or not.
I've been looking into joining the fire service for years and i think next year when i finish my qualification in motor vehicle maintenance and repair ill finally be ready to apply. Your videos have been a great help with learning valuable tips and tricks but it has also been very interesting learning more about the American system and how it is run compared to our systems (from what I've read online from the fire and rescue service website) to how we operate here in Northern Ireland as even our entry fitness requirements are vastly lacking compared to the requirements in the US
I’m going to firefighting school in September. I’m training HARD right now seeing progress that I am pleased with. Weight lifting, running, body weight everything you can think of. Hoping I will be ready as right now I know I am overweight but I have time to fix that issue with discipline!
I got on the job three years ago thanks to your videos
As a junior ff I love doing burn drills and can’t wait to get out on calls
Hey Mike I’m on my journey to become a police officer, however your videos and advice have been great the hiring process is almost identical!
Could you make a video detailing what working as an EMT is like, in pursuit of switching to the fire academy afterwards?
Bout to get out of the marines and I am currently going through a bunch of FD hiring processes
I’m in the academy right now I have 3 months before graduation I remember during my interview I gave a short and sweet answer. I want to do something great and I want to become the best of the best💪
Good answer
Listen to Mike. I have used his videos during my interview process and now I am a Firefighter
I'm an admin assistant at my local department, I work for the deputy chiefs that oversee the volunteers (composite department). When I got hired, I had virtually no knowledge of the service. Fast forward a year, and I've developed a passion for the service, and I have an even deeper respect for them now.
I'm taking steps to stand with them. I feel duty-bound to do so. If I can do it, I should do it.
I live in a small community with a retained fire service. It never once occurred to me to join. One day there was a fatal car crash and my then wife and young son were the next car on the scene. I have no idea but I thought if the car missed the delivery van it may have hit them, might have missed too, but it played on my mind. Next recruitment cycle I applied. I told them that had they been involved then I would have expected someone else to turn up and deal with it. So if I can expect someone else to help then I should be willing to reciprocate. In 22 years now.
Where have you been? Why haven’t you been posted?
The information and tips are absolutely the best. I received a conditional job offer today and i am a little freaked out. I only have medical and psychological testing left to do. I know ill do fine but its a little nerve raking.
Good luck, you got this!
@@mike_pertz Thank you!
Hi Mike! I started to study to the written Exam through your videos, I got the first PDF Basic Geometry, but the other ones it shows that there's some ERROR in the page, even when I tried to get into your website. There's any other way or website I could get those PDF?
The simplify way you're explain the questions are really helpful, hopefully you some time see this! fingers crossed
Hey Mike, I know it may vary, but how long are the waiting periods between interviews for the fire Academy? I just took my first interview today, not sure what my results will be. But I would like to know what your experience with that is.
Are there certain workouts that are good train to be a firefighter
Am I able to do firefighting and wildland in the same year?
Hi Mike, recently found your channel and I’m trying to get into fire. I had a question I wasn’t able to find. But in your opinion do you think it’s valuable to know ASL (American sign language)? I’ve been learning and I know the basics so I was curious if you believed that would be a valuable skill. Thank you.
I joined the fire department because I wanted to do medicals. Then the chief gave me a 2 1/2 inch hose to clean the floors and it was the 2nd time in my life I fell in love with big hoses.
Previously, I had lived in a decent sized city and getting into the fire service or becoming or EMT training was highly competitive. I was discouraged and put it on a list of dreams I'd never see. The I moved to a small town and the department was desperate for bodies and said they'd train me if I joined. My dad was volunteer for 40 years, and I loved how he would just drop everything to help anybody, and knew exactly what to do. He also had some Badass stories and a lot of tragic ones. I wanted to be like him, and be the person others could rely on when something scary happens. I am an EMR and I'm currently in fire school. I've gotten to do things I've only dreamed of. And it scratches that itch of mine that wanted to be Badass. Even if I'm just a dork with a love for big hoses.
I’m incredibly nervous about my chances of being hired on as a fireman in my city. It’s always been my dream to be one and it dates back to seeing a fireman save my dads life as he bled out nearly dying. I’m 22 years old and I recently graduated college with an unrelated degree. My friend on the force told me last year the city had 600 applicants and they only had 42 positions to fill. Those are terrible odds. It’s entry level, no experience required so there’s obviously going to be a ton of intrigue amongst the community.
My question is, how can I best prepare myself to stand out? Hiring process begins in about a month, I’m 5’11, 154 and I’ve been working at both my cardiovascular and muscular fitness like a maniac for about seven months in preparation. I’ve been studying the study guide as well. Closer to the interview process I’m going to rehearse that with some friends.
If I don’t get hired on this year, should I go and get my EMT and try again next year? Keep in mind this will be provided in my city’s fire academy if I get selected
how serious are the risks of cancer from the fire retardant gear that has forever chemicals called PFAS?
I have been trying to get the course for free so I can decide if I need it, whenever I put in $0, it doesn’t seem to work. Is it just an issue on my end? It doesn’t work for anything under $20.
I am already. It is because my uncle passed away. Family tradition
I have a follow up question. I'm a little bit older (only 37) What if they follow up the "why do you want to become a fire fighter" with "why did you not try sooner if it had an impact on your life?"
They won't ask that. If they do tell them it took time to figure it out through trial and error. Life experience is a huge advantage for you. I got hired at 30.
I wanna be a firefighter because I couldn't be in the military due to my father saying I'm to weak and I'm currently trying to bulk and gain weight and gain shape to join the Firefighter and save everyone I just want to save all the people even if it meant dying the most brutal death
What if I have never lost anything or anyone, I never had a rough childhood, and I never met a firefighter until I joined a class? I don’t really know what to say
i’m in the same boat
To Mike, or anyone that has purchased this course: Is the content different than the videos and information thats been posted for 4 years now? How so? Thanks
Yes-i apply the principles in videos from the past 4 years and answer 50 different questions breaking them down into “who, what, why, and how” questions. I walk you through 50 questions in about 90 minutes telling you how to answer each question-I give real world examples of other answers as well.
I am 35 year old from India and I have passed 10th class in 2007 in India.. I want to know how I can become a fire fighter in USA..I Live in India and I have passport
I have been a volunteer firefighter and it is quite a story as I was a child. First "adopted" as a mascot (instead of a Dalmatian), I rode on fire trucks in parades, then, when I was 8 they started taking me to fires (there was a helmet and jacket kept in the truck), suit me up and put a hose in my hands. Later, in my thirties I was a reserve firefighter in a big city. Asked: "Why do you want to be a firefighter?" I would tell the story and explain "It's in my blood. It's part of who I am."
Why wait till your 30's? You could've been full time at 18
@@ViperVideo First, I am a boomer. Second, I was in the military in my 20's. Third, I didn't move to a big city until I was 30. Fourth, as a boomer, you have to go on a long waiting list to get a job as a firefighter or a cop. I utilized a couple of political connections just to get the reserve spot, which filled my fix. I did have a good job at the time, so, hotel manager on weekdays, firefighter on weekends.
@The_Dudester I knew some places make you wait a long time till there's an opening. Then there's others areas that are desperate and need firefighters
Why? Because my dad was a firefighter for nearly 40 years. I grew up in the firehouse. But what was THE moment? I always asked him how his shift went. When I was younger, he wouldn't tell me much, but as I got older, I started getting the actual story of what happened. One was that a guy was riding in the back of a U-Haul and it was hit and pinned against a guardrail. A man who was riding in the back was pinned between the truck and the guardrail was still alive. My dad said he went and put his arm around him, knowing he wouldn't make it, but he talked to him while they tried to free him. My dad was the last person he would ever talk to. He offered him comfort in the last moments of his life. Unfortunately for me, my dad became the training officer, which meant I couldn't train under him. I didn't want to work in any other city than where my dad worked, so I never became a firefighter. It's the biggest regret of my life. He took me to the training center and showed me what a live fire was like in the Conex box and let me be the nozzle man. I've never felt more at peace in my life than when I had flames rolling over my head. I'll die always wishing I lived that life.
Could I still join the fire service with a neck tattoo?
Never been this early lol
hi can you be a firefighter that wears glasses
Cute ears
You think they will hire me if I’m black?
Sad to see an AI generated image being used as a title card on this channel.
And why is that 😂 I think it’s cool