Students come to me to ask what kinds of jobs are there in the emergency services. I went online to see what careers are part of emergency services. Wikipedia has a great list.
Here is a list of emergency service careers from Wikipedia.
- Law enforcement - investigation and prevention
- Fire service
- Emergency medical services
- Military
- Coast guard and lifeboat (in the UK)
- Mountain rescue
- Cave rescue
- Mine rescue
- Technical rescue
- Search and rescue
- Wildland firefighting
- Bomb disposal
- Blood/organ transplant supply
- Emergency management (hospitals, universities, counties, cities, etc)
- Amateur radio emergency communications
- HAZ-MAT
- Civil Air Patrol
- Public utilities infrastructure protection
- Emergency road services
- Civilian traffic officers
- Emergency social services
- Community emergency response teams
- Disaster relief and assistance (like the Red Cross and Salvation Army)
- Famine relief
- Poison control
- Animal control
- Medical and first aid support
- Park rangers
- Lifeguards
Add
- International humanitarian services
- Refugee services
- Fire prevention
- Engineering standards and building codes
- Forensics and arson investigation
- Federal and state emergency management
- Border control and immigration
- Cyber security
- Global positioning and map making
- Ski patrol
- Air ambulance
- Ambulance services
- Risk management and corporate infrastructure protection
- Corporate and public utility emergency managers
- Business continuity
- Insurance adjustment and risk management
- Crisis management
- Flood control and infrastructure management
- Home repair and private disaster recovery services
- Utility lineman
- Debris removal
- Contractors and builders
- Dispatchers
- Public information officer and media relations, media monitors
- Legislator, government officials, and policymakers
- Also nursing, medical, and ER services
Can you think of others? (The greatest growth field for emergency services maybe in business and corporation protection.)
Reference: Emergency Service. (2017, July 28). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
