| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Fire Investigator |
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
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- Analyze evidence and other information to determine probable cause of fire or explosion.
- Subpoena and interview witnesses, property owners, and building occupants to obtain information and sworn testimony.
- Prepare and maintain reports of investigation results, and records of convicted arsonists and arson suspects.
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| Fire Prevention Specialist |
- Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
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- Locate forest fires on area maps, using azimuth sighters and known landmarks.
- Extinguish smaller fires with portable extinguishers, shovels, and axes.
- Patrol assigned areas, looking for forest fires, hazardous conditions, and weather phenomena.
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| Computer Forensics Technician |
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
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- Operate and maintain laboratory equipment and apparatus.
- Examine firearms to determine mechanical condition and legal status, performing restoration work on damaged firearms to obtain information such as serial numbers.
- Testify in court about investigative and analytical methods and findings.
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