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O*NET detailed work activityOperate firefighting equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
4 jobs8 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Protect people or property from threats such as fires or flooding, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Drive and operate fire fighting vehicles and equipment.
- Serve as a working leader of an engine, hand, helicopter, or prescribed fire crew of three or more firefighters.
- Operate pumps connected to high-pressure hoses.
- Extinguish smaller fires with portable extinguishers, shovels, and axes.
- Extinguish flames and embers to suppress fires, using shovels or engine- or hand-driven water or chemical pumps.
- Create openings in buildings for ventilation or entrance, using axes, chisels, crowbars, electric saws, or core cutters.
- Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.