Firefighter is an emergency vehicle-based side mission available in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Description[]
In order to start the mission, the player must find a Fire Truck (standard variant only, not available for the ladder variant) and press the button shown on the instruction text (platform dependent) to toggle the side mission on or off.
Once the mission is started, the player is given the location of a burning vehicle in a random neighborhood of the current city or region, and a time limit on screen below the HUD.
The player must drive the Fire Truck to the burning vehicle's location and extinguish the fire using the Firetruck hose by using the attack button.
After putting out the fire within the time limit, the level is completed and the player will get a timer bonus for the following level. For the following levels, the player must extinguish the fires of multiple vehicles and their occupants.
In order to achieve the 100% Completion requirement, the player must complete 12 levels in a row.
Rewards[]
After completing 12 levels in a row, the player will become fireproof.
The amount of money earned in each level is determined by the following formula: . Completing level 12 adds another $5000 cash bonus, for a total of $13450.
| Level | Money |
|---|---|
| 1 | $200 |
| 2 | $450 |
| 3 | $800 |
| 4 | $1250 |
| 5 | $1800 |
| 6 | $2450 |
| 7 | $3200 |
| 8 | $4050 |
| 9 | $5000 |
| 10 | $6050 |
| 11 | $7200 |
| 12 | $13450 |
| Total | $45900 |
Beta Content[]
An alternative version of the Firefighter side-mission was originally planned but was scrapped during early development.
This variation of Fire Fighter tasked the player to break into burning buildings and rescue people from inside by guiding them out of the building. It can only be assumed that the interiors used in this side-mission were reused Burglar house interiors due to lack of leftovers of this mission in the game files.
It is suggested that the mission Burning Desire originally served as a tutorial for this side-mission due to the similarity of objectives. Although the "Oxygen" limit is exclusive to the side-mission.
Additionally, this variation of Fire Fighter appears to have been meant to be completed in each city, as it notified the player that "all fires in (city name) have been completed", still using their placeholder real-life names in the scrapped text (LA, San Fran and Vegas).
Leftovers of this side-mission can be found in the notusedtext.txt file, a text file containing early american.gxt entries scrapped by the original Rockstar North developers, and accidentally left in the files of the original release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition by Grove Street Games.
[F_OUT:FIRETRK] FIRES: ~1~ [F_WATER:FIRETRK] WATER: ~1~ [F_RESCU:FIRETRK] PEOPLE: ~1~ [F_LEVEL:FIRETRK] LEVEL: ~1~ [F_CITY:FIRETRK] CITY: ~a~ [F_SAVED:FIRETRK] ~s~You have found them all, get clear of the area! [F_OXYGN:FIRETRK] OXYGEN: ~1~:~1~ [F_OXGN2:FIRETRK] OXYGEN: ~1~:0~1~ [F_HELP1:FIRETRK] ~s~You must enter the burning area and rescue the required number of people within the time limit to pass the level. [F_HELP2:FIRETRK] ~s~While inside a burning building you have a limited time before your oxygen runs out. [F_HELP3:FIRETRK] ~s~Oxygen can be refilled by leaving the burning building or collecting pickups in the area. [F_HELP4:FIRETRK] ~s~You can refill the fire extinguisher by entering the firetruck or collecting the appropriate pickups. [F_HELP5:FIRETRK] ~s~People are rescued by approaching them, once all have been rescued you must vacate the area before the time runs out. [F_HELP6:FIRETRK] ~s~They will only appear on the radar if within the players vacinity. [F_TIME:FIRETRK] TIME: ~1~:~1~ [F_TIME2:FIRETRK] TIME: ~1~:0~1~ [F_INDOR:FIRETRK] ~s~The fire's inside the building, get in there and put it out! [F_NOWAT:FIRETRK] ~s~You're out of water, get back to the firetruck to refill the extinguisher. [F_HELP7:FIRETRK] ~s~Press the ~w~~t~~s~ button to tell the person to wait [F_HELP8:FIRETRK] ~s~Press the ~w~~t~~s~ button to tell the person to follow [F_GUIDE:FIRETRK] ~s~Guide the person out of the burning building [F_FIND:FIRETRK] ~s~You need to check to see if there is anyone trapped inside. [F_LADON:FIRETRK] ~r~All LA fire missions have already been completed, try another city [F_LAFIN:FIRETRK] ~s~All fire missions in LA area completed! [F_VGDON:FIRETRK] ~r~All Vegas fire missions have already been completed, try another city [F_VGFIN:FIRETRK] ~s~All fire missions in Vegas area completed! [F_SFDON:FIRETRK] ~r~All San Fran fire missions have already been completed, try another city [F_SFFIN:FIRETRK] ~s~All fire missions in San Fran area completed! [F_NTCIT:FIRETRK] ~r~You're too far from a city to pick up any fire missions! [F_COMPL:FIRETRK] ~s~All fire missions in San Andreas have been completed [F_LVLDN:FIRETRK] ~s~FIRE MISSION COMPLETED [F_PEEP:FIRETRK] ~s~Rescue the poeple inside. [F_FIRE:FIRETRK] ~s~Put out the fire.
