What is a Firefighter, What Does He Do, How to Become? Firefighter Salaries 2022

Firefighters are personnel who do fire extinguishing in natural disasters, accidents or other disasters, especially fires. The first aim of firefighters is to protect the safety and loss of life and property of citizens at all costs.

What Does a Firefighter Do, What Are His Duties?

What is a Firefighter? Firefighter Salaries 2022 Firefighters respond to fires as the first thing to do. When a fire breaks out in any place, the Fire Brigade is called first. The Fire Brigade, who arrives at the scene, first takes the fire under control and helps people in distress. All these processes are carried out in a planned manner. In other words, the person who is a firefighter does not act independently.

Firefighters take part not only in fires, but also in various rescue efforts. Firefighters must stay strong and calm during these missions. He must intervene professionally in every event he goes to.

We can list the duties of firefighters as follows;

• Taking precautions against fires.
• To do the necessary work in fire areas.
• Helping people in distress in the fire area.
• Correctly removing the injured persons from the fire area.
• Rescue trapped animals or people anywhere.
• To work to prevent loss of life and property in natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
• He does first aid.
• It opens the jump sheet when necessary.
• It makes the necessary water reinforcement to the fire places.

How to Become a Firefighter

Persons who want to become a firefighter must complete 2 years of education by studying at the Civil Defense and Firefighting department, which provides education at universities. Persons who have a diploma by reading the department can take the KPSS exam and perform the profession of firefighting.

Persons who want to become a firefighter must meet the following requirements;

1. Being a citizen of the Republic of Turkey.
2. Male candidates must be taller than 1.67 centimeters and female candidates should be longer than 1.60 centimeters.
3. To get at least 70 points from the KPSS exam.
4. Not to be over 30 years old.
5. Not having been punished for public events before.

Firefighter Salaries 2022

Salaries in this occupational group generally vary according to the education level of the people. The lowest firefighter salary was announced as 2022 thousand 5 TL as of 728, while the highest firefighter salary was 5 thousand 949 TL.
The salaries are as follows:

• 2022 (January-July) secondary and high school graduate firefighter salaries: 5,728 TL
• 2022 (January-July) corporal-high school and secondary school graduate firefighter salaries: 5,843 TL
• 2022 (January-July) associate and undergraduate degree firefighter salaries: 5,751 TL
• 2022 (January-July) sergeant-high school and graduate firefighter salaries: 5,843 TL
• 2022 (January-July) sergeant, associate degree and undergraduate firefighter salaries: 5,865 TL
• 2022 (January-July) supervisor-associate degree graduate firefighter salaries: 5,947 TL
• 2022 (January-July) supervisor- graduate firefighter salaries: 5,949 TL