Fire Captain, Sacramento County Airport Fire *Revised

Fire Captain, Sacramento County Airport Fire

This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on: 9/2/26, 9/16/26,
* 10/2/26, 11/6/26, 12/3/26 (final).

Sacramento County Airport Fire is an operational ALS provider. To learn more about the division including their mission, history, staff, and equipment, visit their website:
Sacramento County Airport Fire.

Incumbents may also be eligible for a 10% Paramedic Pay incentive. The following table includes the salary calculations for an employee on a 24-hour shift with the differential calculations for Paramedic Pay (10%).

Under direction, the Fire Captain, Sacramento County Airport Fire supervises, assigns, reviews, and participates in the work of staff responsible for preventing, controlling, and extinguishing fires; rescuing persons endangered by aircraft crash and fire or structural fire; responds to and provides assistance for medical aid calls, vehicle accidents, and Hazmat incidents. While providing supervision to a single crew, incumbents ensure work quality and adherence to established policies and procedures, and performs the more technical and complex tasks relative to the assigned area of responsibility.

• Principles and practices of supervision, discipline, leadership, mentoring, and training
• Team dynamics and team building
• Applicable federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations
• Operational characteristics, services, and activities of assigned programs and functions
• Office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and applicable software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and other specialized applications related to area of assignment
• English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• Principles, practices, and procedures of aircraft rescue and firefighting operations
• Principles of structural, wildland and aircraft firefighting
• Principles, practices, and procedures of fire prevention and fire investigation
• Training standards necessary to comply with all federal, state, and local aircraft rescue and firefighting requirements
• Operation and maintenance of equipment and vehicles used in firefighting activities
• Concepts, components, and procedures of the Incident Command System
• Hazardous materials incident response and management
• Fire investigation procedures and techniques
• Fire and life safety codes
• Basic life support principles and techniques

• Advanced Life Support (ALS) techniques including but not limited to IV therapy, cardiac monitoring, advanced airway control and a variety of medication therapies, as a Paramedic
• Standing orders provided by off-line medical director
• Medical terminology

• Select, supervise, train and evaluate staff
• Plan, organize, and provide direction at an emergency scene
• Plan, coordinate, assign, and review the work of subordinate staff
• Investigate and resolve disciplinary issues
• Develop and maintain cooperative, effective working relationships with others
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing
• Interpret and apply applicable federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations
• Collect and compile a variety of data and information
• Direct subordinates in firefighting or other emergency situations
• Evaluate an aircraft fire and rescue situation and determine appropriate action
• Respond to vehicle accidents and medical aid calls
• Operate aircraft firefighting and rescue equipment
• Conduct and participate in SCAF training
• Enforce federal, state, and local fire protection and prevention codes
• Conduct emergency drills
• Respond to fires and alarms and effectively perform fire suppression and rescue work
• Conduct preliminary fact‑finding inspections and investigations of fire scenes, including…