They risk their safety to enter situations without hesitation or concern for self preservation. They are trained to be as safe as possible, but there isn’t a police officer alive who wouldn’t claim to be willing to lay down their life for the life of a baby.
That’s a firefighter.
Edcept you’d never hear a firefighter say that they would rather let a civilian die in a fire than risk going into a burning building.
I should have been more specific: