Firefighter Feasibility Study

I would use an in-basket exercise for locating and rescuing fire victims. I would present the applicant with a scenario where they are entering a house that is on fire. If two small children are trapped on the second floor of the house I would want a potential firefighter to know how to locate the children. They should have good hearing and be perceptive to any noises or movements the children are making. If something is blocking easy access to the kids, I need to know that the applicant is creative and will find another way to help the children. Once the potential firefighter picks up the children I want to know how he or she will bring the children to safety. If the fire has escalated quickly, and the firefighter cannot go back the way they came up, I need to know how they plan on saving the kids. Firefighters need to be innovative and quick thinkers; otherwise nobody will make it out of the house alive. I need to know that the applicant can think their way out
The potential firefighter can talk about their summer job as a lifeguard in high school. One day while they were on duty a kid was running around the pool and fell and scratched his knee on the ground. The applicant can proceed to talk about how they got the first aid kit and disinfected the scrape. Also, if an applicant has successfully performed CPR before, I know that they will be able to perform CPR again if needed. The potential firefighter could tell the story of how they performed CPR on a person they rescued from a burning building last year. This tells me that they know how to locate a victim and what to do if they are unconscious when found. Also, say the victim had a cut on their leg when they were found. The applicant can talk about how they cleaned and treated the cut. They can state that they cleaned the wound with rubbing alcohol, and then wrapped gauze around it until the ambulance reached the