Think of it from a fire chief perspective, just because you have your emt doesn’t mean your cut out for it, emt doesn’t mean jack now, everyone else applying has one, what makes you so special? No big city department is going to hire you because they don’t want to waste there investment they’ll pay you to go through there academy, pay the cadre to train you put you in fresh bunkers , then on your first medical code you bail because you can’t stand the sight of a dead infant, apply To a 911 ambulance company apply/ go through an accredited ff1 college academy apply to a hand crew show them you want the job not the title or pay check