Horace Woods

Salary: $54,625 USD Per Year

Hours per week: 72

With over 25 years of Fire Protection experience in the Department of Defense Fire Protection career field, I'm currently serving as member of Eglin AFB Fire & Emergency Services, 96th Civil Engineering Squadron. Our mission is to provide the most comprehensive, innovative and responsive Fire Emergency Services support possible to fully protect the lives, property, and environment of the members of the 96th Test Wing within the 7 fire districts that we are responsible for. As a member of Eglin AFB Fire & Emergency Services, I'm assigned to a ARFF Fire Protection Crew, who's responsible for providing ARFF fire protection for various Air Force aircraft, along with providing fire protection services for the Destin/Fort Walton Beach Regional Airport. My current professional experience includes: driving and operating ARFF Firefighting and Pumper Apparatuses, maintaining tools and equipment in a serviceable ready-response condition to respond to any and all emergencies that require fire suppression, exercise caution to avoid personal injury and property damage, and at the site of a fire, protect and preserve evidence indicating the cause of the fire. In addition to providing the highest quality of fire protection, I'm also task with the responsibility to provide specialized rescue and emergency medical services for patients who may be entrapped or in need of life saving resuscitation.

Salary: $55,176 USD Per Year

Hours per week: 72

During my tenure at Fort Novosel, I worked as member of a Structural Firefighting/ARFF Crew for Fort Novosel Fire and Emergency Services, which serves the headquarters of U.S. Army Aviation. While the garrison command manages the daily operations of the Fort Novosel community, the Aviation Branch Headquarters develops, coordinates and deploys aviation operations, training and doctrine. With approximately 25 years of professional fire protection experience, I was assigned to a crash response crew who's primary mission was to provide ARFF fire protection for various rotary wing aircrafts that fly 5 to 7 days a week to provide aviation training for the Department of the Army's future pilots. In support of the mission, we were responsible for responding to fires using firefighting and rescue techniques, equipment and extinguishing agents utilizing trained knowledge of firefighter theory and tools; contaminated and/or hazardous areas requiring the full performance of firefighting tasks to include: building ventilation, fire extinguishing, emergency medical service(s) apparatus operation, protective performance techniques as needed in the event to protect life and property.

Salary: $125,000 USD Per Year

Hours per week: 84

With over 25 years of fire protection experience as a firefighter, and 5 years of experience as a Fire Crew Chief/EMT, I Served as a Fire Crew Chief (Basic Life Support/Hazardous Materials Technician) and a member of an Airport Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) Crew at Camp Lemonnier Fire Emergency Services, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) , a federal fire protection contracting agency, located in Djibouti, Africa. As the Fire Crew Chief/EMT, I was responsible for directing and supervising the daily operations and preventative maintenance checks for multiple ARFF and Structural Fire apparatuses valued at 500,000 to 750,000 dollars per apparatus. In addition to maintaining and being responsible for those major pieces of firefighting apparatuses, I was also charged with the duties and responsibilities of leading a crew of four firefighters during all firefighting, rescue, and HAZMAT incident activities.

Salary: $165,000 USD Per Year

Hours per week: 72

Assistant Fire Chief of Operations (Basic Life Support/Hazardous Materials Technician) for Amentum DynCorp International, and a member of the United States Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan Fire Emergency Services Department, located aboard the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. As the Assistant Chief of Operations, I have a total of 24 years of fire protection experience, and over 4 years of specialized experience in supervising all firefighters of the day-to-day operations of the fire department with 16 or more firefighters for one of the two 48-hour shifts who drive and operate firefighting vehicles of significant complexity, fighting structural fires, responding to hazardous materials incidents, perform rescue operations and basic life support, and assist in reducing and/or eliminating potential fire hazards. In addition to my responsibilities as the Assistant Chief of Operations, I was also tasked with the responsibility of managing the daily fire prevention activities to include educational promotions, training, fire prevention weekly activities, and seasonal campaigns.

Salary: $55,176 USD Per Year

Hours per week: 72

Fire Lieutenant (Basic Life Support/Hazardous Materials Technician) with 20 years of fire protection experience as a firefighter, and a member of an Airport Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) Response Crew for the Department of the Navy, located aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola Fire & Emergency Services Gulf Coast. As the Fire Lieutenant, I was in charge of directing the operation and daily maintenance and preventative checks for multiple ARFF apparatuses valued at 500,000 to 750,000 dollars per apparatus. In addition to maintaining and being responsible for those major pieces of firefighting apparatuses, I was also charged with the duties and responsibilities of leading a crew of four firefighters during all firefighting, rescue, and HAZMAT incident activities.