The Forest Fire Inspector enforces fire regulations and inspects for forest fire hazards. They must report forest fires and weather conditions in order to save lives and property.
Duties:
The Forest Fire Inspector relays messages about emergencies, accidents, locations of crew and personnel, and fire hazard conditions. The Forest Fire Inspector directs crews working on fire lines during forest fires. The Forest Fire Inspector estimates sizes and characteristics of fires, and report findings to base camps by radio or telephone. The Forest Fire Inspector administers regulations regarding sanitation, fire prevention, violation corrections, and related forest regulations. The Forest Fire Inspector extinguishes smaller fires with portable extinguishers, shovels, and axes. The Forest Fire Inspector locates forest fires on area maps, using azimuth sighters and known landmarks. The Forest Fire Inspector maintains records and logbooks. The Forest Fire Inspector examines and inventory firefighting equipment such as axes, fire hoses, shovels, pumps, buckets, and fire extinguishers in order to determine amount and condition. The Forest Fire Inspector directs maintenance and repair of firefighting equipment, or requisition new equipment. The Forest Fire Inspector restricts public access and recreational use of forest lands during critical fire seasons.
Knowledge:
The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. The Forest Fire Inspector uses his knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. The Forest Fire Inspector needs knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
Skills:
The Forest Fire Inspector must be able to teach others how to perform duties relating to forest fire prevention and putting out the forest fires. The Forest Fire Inspector must adjust actions in relation to others’ actions. The Forest Fire Inspector performs routine maintenance on equipment and determines when and what kind of maintenance is needed. The Forest Fire Inspector must give full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. The Forest Fire Inspector uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. The Forest Fire Inspector motivates, develops, and directs people as they work; identify the best people for the job.
The Forest Fire Inspector monitors performances of you, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. The Forest Fire Inspector considers the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. The Forest Fire Inspector must be able to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. The Forest Fire Inspector needs the ability to talk to others to convey information effectively. They must also be able to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. This does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.