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Seasonal - Wildland / Risk Reduction Firefighter
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- The Seasonal Wildland/Risk Reduction Firefighter serves as a member of a fuel management crew and/or a wildland fire suppression crew; performs risk reduction and responds to wildland fires within Elko County; and performs related duties as assigned.
- Serves as a member of the fire crew assigned to suppress the full range of wildland fires independently performing recurring fire suppression duties.
- Perform assignments as a wildland firefighter in developing a working knowledge of fire suppression and fuels management techniques, practices and terminology.
- Chop's brush, falls small trees, and moves dirt to construct fireline using various hand tools such as axes, shovels, Pulaski's, McLeod's, and may use power tools including chainsaws and portable pumps to control spreading of wildland fire and/or to prepare control lines prior to burning.
- Patrol firelines to locate and extinguish embers, flareups, and hotspot fires that may threaten developed firelines.
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