Recruiting: Join the Bryan Fire Department

About Bryan Fire Department

The Bryan Fire Department serves the City of Bryan, Texas, a diverse community of 85,000 located in the heart of the Texas Triangle with easy access to the Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan areas.

Bryan firefighters follow four pillars of work every day that keep them safe and successful. These include:

• Round-trip ticket: Ensuring all firefighters go home at the end of their shift
• Customer service: Providing the best firefighting and EMS service to the customers of Bryan.
• Training: Focusing on training to ensure all personnel are capable of maintaining the first two goals.
• Reevaluation: As a forward-leaning, progressive department, consistently evaluating to better themselves.

As one of the leading departments in the nation, BFD is an ISO Class 1 department, has accreditation through the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services and is Best Practice Certified by the Texas Fire Chiefs Association.

Salary and Benefits

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Requirements

Application Process

The process to become a Bryan Firefighter involves several steps:

1. Written civil service exam

Successful applicants must score a 70 or higher on this exam to pass to the next step. Additional points are added to a passing score for applicants who meet the following criteria:

• Active military or honorably discharged veterans: Additional 5 points added to a passing score
• Texas certified Firefighter/Paramedic: Additional 5 points added to a passing score
• Texas Department of State Health Services certified Paramedic: Additional 3 points added to a passing score.

2. Physical fitness assessment

All candidates must pass a physical fitness assessment that includes the following.

The candidate will have 12 minutes to run/walk one (1) mile. You can run, walk, or do a combination of each. However, you cannot stop forward movement. This task will be separate from all other tasks. Should you pass this assessment, you will report to the Bryan Fire Department drill field for the remaining tasks.

All exercises in the Fitness Assessment (listed below) are simulations of the actual tasks performed by Bryan Firefighters in the discharge of their duties. All tasks are to be performed with gloves, helmet, and air pack (except for the ladder climb). Tasks 1-7 will be performed continuously with no breaks between tasks. If the candidate initially fails a task, the candidate will complete the assessment and immediately retest the task failed without a break between the initial attempt and the retest attempt.

The candidate must pass tasks 1-7 and will only be allowed one re‐test per task. If the candidate fails three tasks in any order on the initial test, the candidate will fail the overall test.

1. Carry a 50 ft. rolled section of double‐jacketed 3 inch hose from the base of the training tower up to the fourth floor and back down to the base.
2. Using hand‐over‐hand technique, raise the fly of a 35 foot extension ladder to the maximum height.
3. Pick up the nozzle end of a 1 ¾ inch hose and drag the hose 75 ft. to a pre‐positioned drum. Make a 90° turn and continue an additional 25 ft. Place nozzle in box, kneel on one knee, and pull remaining 75 ft. across finish line.
4. Standing at the fourth story of the training tower, pull a 35 pound equipment bag that is attached to a 1/2 inch rope to the top of the railing. You must use a hand‐under‐hand method. The rope cannot touch the railing. Once you start, you cannot stop upward movement of the equipment bag.
5. Walk 25 yards, pick up a 165 pound rescue mannequin, and carry it back to your starting point without stopping. Buttocks must not touch the ground while carrying the mannequin.
6. Using an 8 pound sledgehammer, move the Keiser slide to the opposite end in 22 hits or less.
7. Pick up a positive pressure fan and walk 25 yards without setting it down.

3. Interview panel

Candidates will participate in an individual interview with a panel of various Bryan Fire Department personnel and a representative from the City of Bryan Human Resources Department.

4. Background check

Applicants with Class B misdemeanor convictions (including deferred adjudication, pre-trial diversion, probation) in the past 10 years, or Class A misdemeanor or felony convictions at any time, are ineligible for hire.

5. Job offer

Conditional, pending a medical and drug screening.

6. New Hire Medical and Drug Screening

Basic medical exam and drug screening to assess if you are medically fit for duty.

The Academy

The Bryan Fire Department conducts its own paid in-house fire academy taught by BFD personnel, setting it apart from many agencies in our region. At the end of the 24-week academy, BFD cadets will graduate to become certified Firefighters through the Texas Commission of Fire Protection and certified EMT-Basics through the Texas Department of State Health Services and national EMT registry.

In the academy, Cadets receive hands-on training in the guidelines, methods and practices of the Bryan Fire Department. Skills taught include:

• Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
• BFD Fire Tactics
• Firefighter Safety and Survival
• Apparatus Familiarization
• BFD Engine Company Operations
• BFD Ladder Company Operations
• Rescue Skills and Guidelines
• MAYDAY/RIT
• BFD Communications
• High Rise Operations
• BFD Station Operations

When you complete the fire academy, you go straight on to shift work with the BFD. Our in-house academy ensures you get to active duty quicker than if you trained at a general fire academy.

Fully certified Firefighters who are hired by the BFD may be eligible for a shortened 6-week academy.

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