International Fire Fighters Day 2021: All you need to know Quotes, Messages, History, and Celebration of International Firefighters Day advertisement UPDATED: May 4, 2021 14:05 IST Can you risk your own life by saving someone whom you don’t know? Hardly few of us. But when it comes to family and friends, we can go to a certain level to save our dear ones. It’s really difficult to risk our own lives to rescue a stranger. Thus, these types of heroic activities are selflessly done by firefighters. Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten life, property, and the environment, as well as to rescue people and, in some cases or jurisdictions, also animals from dangerous situations. So to honour such personalities, International Fire Fighters Day (IIFD) is observed every year on 4 May for firefighters around the globe.