By day, I am a mild mannered (sort of) DBA/DBD (Database Developer). By night, I get to be a volunteer fire fighter for my community. Being a fire fighter is COMPLETELY different from working on databases all day. At the same time, it CAN be almost identical. Let me explain.
Modus Operandi
Fire fighters are usually in one of two different modes of operation at any given point in time. They are either fighting fire or doing fire prevention for the most part. For this post, I am going to focus on fire fighting and save fire prevention for a follow up post.