Firefighters in China are soldiers. Who are the firemen in America and Europe?

1, American firefighters are composed of full-time firefighters and volunteer firefighters. Generally speaking, full-time firefighters are the mainstay in big cities and densely populated areas, while in many rural areas, ordinary people who have received professional training are also firefighters. The equipment used is the same as that of full-time firefighters, and it is necessary to ensure that the police are on duty 24 hours a day.

States in the United States have different requirements for the recruitment of full-time firefighters, but generally they are required to have a high school education or above, have received training and corresponding professional training in fire schools and other places, and must pass written tests, physical, psychological, interpersonal relationship processing tests and related background investigations.

After starting work, you need to receive further training, such as fire fighting in high-rise buildings, chemical fire fighting and other more professional subjects to improve your level. Many full-time firefighters come from volunteer firefighters.

2. Many European countries have different firefighters.

For example:

(1) German fire brigades are divided into two categories: voluntary fire fighting and occupational fire fighting.

According to German law, only healthy, virtuous and dedicated German citizens can apply to be volunteer firefighters. Those who have served as voluntary firefighters for more than 2 years may be given priority as professional firefighters;

Establish professional fire stations in towns with a population of more than100000, a population of 50000 to100000, and towns with a population of less than 50000, with professional firefighters as the center and volunteer firefighters participating. The volunteer fire station is led by the local government and funded by the government.

In big cities with professional fire stations, volunteer fire stations are responsible for assisting professional fire stations in fire fighting and rescue and organizing social fire fighting activities; In towns without professional fire stations, volunteer fire stations are responsible for both fire fighting and rescue and fire prevention supervision. Volunteer fire stations in various States generally undertake fire fighting and emergency rescue work, and big cities such as Hamburg are also responsible for medical rescue work.

Volunteer firefighters are part-time, and they should all volunteer to engage in fire fighting and rescue work in the fire station for free. Volunteer firefighters participate in fire fighting and rescue work without any remuneration, and the fire bureau only gives certain communication and transportation subsidies on a regular basis, and the amount is not large. This unit does not deduct wages unless it receives an alarm during working hours, and the losses of the unit are subsidized by the government.

(2) The Civil Defence and Civil Security Bureau of the French Ministry of the Interior has "two rooms, four places and one center" including the fire rescue office.

There are 100 provincial disaster rescue command centers and 3,600 fire stations in China. In addition, there are three special rescue teams and two active rescue forces, which are led by the National Civil Defence and Civil Defence Bureau and the Army and Navy Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense. The current fire brigade system in France is divided into three forms: active fire brigade, professional fire brigade and voluntary fire brigade.

Extended data:

Professional equipment

When firefighters participate in fire fighting, they need to use some tools to ensure that firefighters complete fire fighting and rescue work. According to the main scope of action, rescue tools, protective tools and testing tools.

Rescue tool

There are fire engines, curved-arm ladder trucks, straight-arm ladder trucks, fire boats, boats and sometimes helicopters.

Protective tools

Protective tools are used to ensure the personal safety of firefighters, including air respirator, protective clothing against chemical corrosion and high temperature, harmful gas alarm, goggles, etc.

testing tool

There are also some detectors, such as gas detectors, harmful liquid and solid detectors and non-contact hot spot detectors.

Appendages

Such as explosion-proof flashlights, dike ropes for containment, decontamination and washing equipment, etc.

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