该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 响应火警和其他求助电话，例如汽车和工业事故、炸弹威胁和其他紧急情况
• 从燃烧的建筑物和事故现场营救受害者
• 使用手动和动力设备控制和扑灭火灾，例如斧头、水管、云梯和液压设备以及各种消防化学品
• 管理急救和其他援助
• 确保消防设备的正确操作和维护
• 准备火灾事故的书面报告
• 对公众进行防火宣传和教育
• 训练以保持高水平的体能
• 在重大灾难发生时协助公众、警察和应急组织
• 可以作为创伤或应急小组的成员参加，并为事故受害者或病人提供辅助医疗援助
• 可以监督和协调其他消防员的工作
• 可以进行建筑检查，以确保符合消防规范。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 通常需要完成消防技术、消防科学或相关领域的大学课程，并接受一段时间的监督实践培训。
• 提供消防和紧急医疗护理培训课程，长度因不同消防部门或服务的要求而异。
• 在新斯科舍省、魁北克省、安大略省、马尼托巴省和艾伯塔省，消防员的认证是强制性的，但在纽芬兰和拉布拉多、爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克省、萨斯喀彻温省、不列颠哥伦比亚省、育空地区、西北地区和努纳武特地区是自愿的。
• 作为志愿消防员的经验可能是一个优势。
• 必须满足身体敏捷性、力量、健康和视力要求。
• 高级消防员，例如中尉和上尉，需要多年的经验。

• 通过额外的培训和多年的经验，有可能晋升到消防队长等高级职位。

• 消防队长和高级消防员（40041）
• 森林消防员（84111林业工）
• 护理人员（在32102 护理人员职业中）

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Respond to fire alarms and other calls for assistance, such as automobile and industrial accidents, bomb threats and other emergencies
• Rescue victims from burning buildings and accident sites
• Control and extinguish fires using manual and power equipment, such as axes, water hoses, aerial ladders and hydraulic equipment and various firefighting chemicals
• Administer first aid and other assistance
• Ensure proper operation and maintenance of firefighting equipment
• Prepare written reports on fire incidents
• Inform and educate the public on fire prevention
• Train to maintain high level of physical fitness
• Assist the public, the police and emergency organizations during times of major disasters
• May participate as members of a trauma or emergency response team and provide paramedical aid to accident victims or ill persons
• May supervise and coordinate the work of other firefighters
• May conduct building inspections to ensure compliance with fire code.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a college program in fire protection technology, fire science or a related field and a period of supervised practical training is usually required.
• Firefighting and emergency medical care training courses are provided and vary in length depending on the requirements of different fire departments or services.
• Certification for firefighters is compulsory in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
• Experience as a volunteer firefighter may be an advantage.
• Physical agility, strength, fitness and vision requirements must be met.
• Several years of experience are required for senior firefighters, such as lieutenants and captains.

• Progression to senior positions such as fire chief is possible with additional training and several years of experience.

• Fire chiefs and senior firefighting officers (40041)
• Forest firefighter (in 84111 Silviculture and forestry workers)
• Paramedic (in 32102 Paramedical occupations)