It can vary a lot depending on where you live. I would say it follows population density so expect less interventions if you are in the countryside.
Here in VD (Lausanne suburbs) most of the time is spent in mandatory training but I still had ~20 interventions year to date. It can take a lot of hours if you commit a lot or much less if you have less “skills”. For example if you do the truck driving exam it will take you some extra training time, if you become officer as well etc.
Do they support for no mandatory trainings? For example rescue swimming, diving? We are at the shore of lake lugano, plenty of people and turists, therefore I believe they do interventions in there too
What do you mean exactly ?
In Aargau : 4-5 trainings general service mandatory for everyone (if you miss one in a year, no issue). Then you have special functions groups (officers, respiratory mask, machinists, drone group, traffic, wood cutting, electrical, etc.) which have extra trainings, which are mandatory if you want to join said group.
In Aargau, this is not a job for Firefighters. Might be different in Ticino.
I meant as for some roles track driving license may be needed, it could be needed order kinds of centifications, I was wondering if those kind of trainings and exams are sponsorized by them.
Well, first I will start meeting the brigade and taking a step after the other.
Ah ok, yes every training you would need is paid for. I did not pay anything. However, they might have a waiver that you need to join for a certain time (ridiculously small, like a year). And if you move to another village and join there, the new “employer” might buy you out, since they do not have to pay it anymore.
However, in case of truck drivers for instance they will give priority to people who already have it (kind of common in Switzerland through military service). Basically common sense, for some functions they will give priority to people who already have the qualifications through job or life (electrician group will be actual electricians, the guys who happen to own forest land or are already lumberjacks will be in the tree removal group etc.).
So in my case they pay the licenses for people who don’t have it but they expect you to stay for a few years afterwards. Of course if you already have it from the army it’s nice. Any training is paid or reimbursed and you even get compensation for the training hours it takes.
But again it is very local and policies change from canton to canton and even from village to village/city.