The Firefighter Type 2 (FFT2) serves on a hand crew, engine crew, or helitack crew, performing fire suppression and fuels management duties in adverse climate, fuel, and terrain conditions. Supervised by the Firefighter Type 1, the Firefighter Type 2 will work in the Operations functional area.
Essential Functions:
- Ensure individual readiness.
- Obtain briefing from supervisor.
- Acquire, analyze, and use relevant situational information to make more informed decisions and take appropriate actions.
- Adjust actions based on changing information and evolving situation awareness. Communicate changing conditions to supervisor.
- Establish and maintain the physical fitness level necessary to effectively perform hard physical labor for extended periods under adverse climate, fuel, and terrain conditions.
- Perform wildland fire and prescribed fire duties including suppression, preparation, ignition, monitoring, holding, and mop-up. Use standard firefighting tools such as pulaskis, shovels, McLeods, chainsaws, drip torches, and fusees to do this work.
- Perform hand crew duties including packing heavy loads of fuel, food, water, and tools for miles over rough terrain in hot and smoky conditions to get to the work site.
- Perform engine operations duties including running the pump, deploying hoselays, completing preventative engine maintenance checks, and effectively using water and additives.
- Perform portable pump operator duties such as pump site selection, set up, and operation.
- Support chainsaw operations.
- Apply knowledge of fuels, terrain, weather, and fire behavior to decisions and actions.
- Use Incident Command System (ICS) terminology, organization, and command structure.
- Use and maintain personal protection equipment (PPE).
- Report all accidents or injuries to supervisor.
- Follow crew standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Ensure proper refurbishing and resupply of tools, vehicles, food, water and supplies.
Qualifications:
- ICS - 100, Introduction to ICS
- IS - 700, NIMS: An Introduction
- L-180, Human Factors in the Wildland Fire Services
- RT - 130 , Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher
- S - 130, Firefighting Training
- S - 190, Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior
