What do you need to become fire fighter?

how to?
what requirement?
where to?

This is the information provided by the Philadelphia Fire Department:

Description of a Firefighter Position

All firefighters hired by the PFD must apply and successfully compete in a civil service examination for firefighters. Prospective candidates are selected in rank order from the established civil service list for the processing. The process includes Department interviews, criminal and background investigations, and, if selected for conditional appointment, a candidate must successfully pass a medical examination. Additionally, all candidates must be drug free.

Selected candidates are appointed as cadets in an extensive sixteen-week academic, practical and physical training program at the Philadelphia Fire Academy. At the Academy, cadets are trained in basic firefighting procedures as well as in basic emergency medical services, for which they must obtain state certification as an emergency medical technician.

Only upon the successful completion of training are cadets sworn in as Firefighter/ EMT's and assigned to a field fire suppression engine or ladder company. As EMT's, firefighters are also assigned as needed to work in Basic Life Support Medic Units.

All appointees must successfully complete a six-month probationary period.

If you go to the Web site below, you can download a form that explains how to apply to become a firefighter (click on the link on the right side of the page for the "entry level selection process":

https://secure.phila.gov//fire/int.asp?m...

Good luck!!