how to become a firefighter in Switzerland

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Born american that has dual citizenship for switzerland. Im about to make the move. I graduated high school earlier this year. What do I need to become a fire fighter? I can train there to become one, but what do I have to do? Also I want to be a carpenter as a back up, what training do I have to do for that? I still have to learn the official languages.

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A hose.

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Firefighting is voluntary service in Switzerland; every village will be glad to have you but you will need a full time job as well.

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Maybe in every village, but cities are a bit more *ahem* professional.

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That still means it's a career and im getting paid for it right

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Did they not teach you the meaning of the word "voluntary" at high school?

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OK so which of the following languages do you speak French, Italian or German? Remember English is not a Swiss language, so the people your trying to help & many of your fellow workers won't speak English.

BTW having multiple accounts is against forum rules, you came and asked the same questions a few weeks ago.

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Don't tell me this is the aspiring brickie whose only specialty was swearing

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Until you learn to speak one or more Swiss languages you won’t have a career as either a firefighter or a carpenter. Stay in the US and learn German and/or French first and then think about moving. As others have said firefighting is mostly a voluntary (unpaid) situation here except in the big cities. Carpentry is an apprenticeship I think so without knowing the language/s you can’t study, read, understand what you’re being taught and what the regulations are.

And what are your finances like? Considering you’ve just left high school I seriously doubt you have several thousand francs of savings to keep you going while you hunt for jobs you can’t do because you can’t speak the language.

Perhaps you should get together with our other idiot teenage American/Swiss Chidfybsng. Between you, you might actually manage to come up with a reasonable plan to move here and get a job.

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Full of Christmas cheer and goodwill to all men tonight I see!

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http://www.englishforum.ch/employmen...ml#post2047655

Enjoy

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As with most such trade ,military service is requert . it use to be

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What do you mean by "other

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There's an aptitude test before you even get started and one of the tests is understanding German. So I guess when the OP has that mastered he can tackle the other issues.

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/pd/de/i...st.secure.html

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Yes, I did write village.

I do not think the OP has a any chance to join the professionals due to a complete lack of the prerequisites.

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Ask him

http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/zen...id2439338.html

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It actually isn't voluntary - it's (somewhat) mandatory. You can choose not to go but then you have to pay. The amount depends a bit - here we paid 1000 Fr. for two people (500 x 2) on our last tax bill. If you go, you don't get paid, of course - all you earn is angry looks from people who can't get to their homes at 11 p.m. because that large-scale exercise required to lock down the road where they live :-)

Bigger cities have professional fire fighter brigades with paid full-time jobs, of course.

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for the training requirements for professional fire fighters in Switzerland google for . . .

feuerwehr schweiz ausbildung

and use the translate function as required.

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I would think if you have to use a translator, you're not getting into the Swiss fire brigade.

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Here it's 0, which is why I first thought it was pro down here, but it's voluntary here as well.

Tom