Name something you cant be afraid of if you want to be a fireman?

Answer 1

WikiAnswers contributors weigh in on the things that a firefighter absolutely cannot fear:

• Stenophobia - fear of narrow places, climbing ladders

• Acrophobia - fear of high places (ladders, roofs)

• Confined spaces (claustrophobic).
• Pyrophobia - fear of fire or flame

• Hydrophobia - fear of water

• Nyctophobia - fear of the dark

• Thermophobia - fear of heat

• Fear of hard and dangerous work with little thanks

• It also helps not to be scared of fire hoses, fire engines, other firemen and buildings (particularly burning ones).

• Water, blood, big red trucks, heights, confined spaces, the dark, oh yeah and fire

• In order you can't have/be: Hydrophobia - Fear of water, Hemophobia - Fear of blood, not sure - Chromophobia - Fear of colors/Tachophobia - Fear of speed, Acrophobia - Fear of heights, Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces, Melanophobia - Fear of the color black or Noctiphobia - Fear of the night an last but not LEAST Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.

• How about fear of being disoriented inside a burning building, in a room full of thick, hot smoke, zero visibility, running low on air, knowing that your buddy is already dead?

• Fire

• fire, water, unconscious people, heat, EMT's, the list list goes on...

• Smoke

• I'll give you two...Claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) and Acrophobia (fear of heights)

• Fire would be my first choice and heights would be a second. But I would have a healthy respect for both of them

• Dying!

• The fear of fire is pyrophobia, so it is likely someone suffering this condition would find it difficult to become a fireman. Many people are able to overcome their fears, however, so a pyrophobic who wants to become a fireman shouldn't necessarily rule out the possibility.

• Fires, smoke, closed spaces and heights.

• the height of 5m off the ground

• fire and heights are two main phobias which you cant have

Answer 2

The main thing would be, not being afraid of fire. However, if someone is afraid of fire, there are still many jobs on a fire scene not involving fighting fire.

These include:

• Command (in-charge of which units are doing what)
• Rescue
• Scene Support (Filling Breathing Apparatus, Handing out water, etc.)
• And many other jobs besides fighting the fire.

Answer 3

You cannot be afraid of fire, blood, traffic accidents, death, people with mental disorders.

AnswerFear is a component of human psychology. Anyone working in dangerous situations that is not afraid might be suspect, might be dangerous or at least cut out as unsafe. Fear is something all emergency services personal experience. It willappear on the job at different times and in different situations. But it is what the individual does with that fear that is important. Acknowledging fear and coupling that to caution will allow a fire fighter to operate in a "balanced" mode.

The imperatives faced by a fire fighter, particularly when lives are at stake, might push that individual into making poor decisions regarding rescue. The fire fighter who throws caution to the wind might end up in the same situation as the victim. Then the next crew in will have to rescue two people; the problem has more than doubled. Fear must be acknowledged, and then set aside so that the extreme challenges the fire fighter faces can be managed.

Fear, like the rest of the feelings a first responder experiences, will not be something he deceives himself about. Instead, he will detach from these things, which is something he learns by practicing. This permits the individual to bring his best to the situation. A fire fighter has feelings like anyone else, but the difference is that he will not allow those feelings to interfere with his judgment and with what he is doing.

Answer 4

Some firefighters will say they aren't afraid of anything, but there are a lot of fears that you feel as a firefighter about to go into a burning building:

- getting trapped in the building

- losing a brother firefighter

- losing a civilian

- the building colapsing

- a flashover

- explosion from a gas tank or something

All-in-all, I would say that the biggest fear that firefighters have is someone being killed in a fire. Firefighters risk their own lives to save others, so someone else's death in a fire would be a more significant fear for them than losing their own life.

Answer 5

Fire would be my first choice and heights would be a second. But I would have a healthy respect for both of them.

Answer 6

Heights

Fire

Flashing red lights

Loud noises

Enclosed, small spaces

Family Feud....Fire, Height, Water

Answer 7

fire... obviously

or small spaces

temporary loss of vision

water....

Answer 8

Fear of heights.