2026 Fire Lieutenant ECT&E

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Statewide, MA

EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATION/TRAINING & EDUCATION (ECT&E)

Examination Title: Fire Lieutenant
Examination Date: April 7, 2026
Deadline for Online ECT&E Claim Submission: April 14, 2026, at 11:59 pm

This is the online Experience, Certification/Training & Education (ECT&E) Claim for Fire Lieutenant Departmental Promotional Examination scheduled for April 7, 2026. There is no separate fee for filing this claim. Only eligible candidates who have already submitted an application and payment to participate in the Fire Lieutenant departmental promotional examination scheduled for April 7, 2026, must complete this online claim. The ECT&E application is separate from the written application and must be submitted for ECT&E credit.

ECT&E Examination Weights: ECT&E is made up of three categories and weighted as Experience 52%, Certification/Training 28% and Education 20%.

General Instructions: The ECT&E examination component asks a series of questions about a candidate’s employment, supervisory experience, trainings/certifications, and education. The ECT&E guide contains instructions and examples on how to fill out the ECT&E application. Please refer to the 2026 Fire Promotional ECT&E Guide for complete instructions and examples of how to fill out the online ECT&E Claim. The guide is available on the Human Resources Division (HRD) Civil Service website at 2026 Fire Promotional ECT&E Examination Guide .

Preparing & Saving Your Claim: Candidates will be able to log in, complete, and submit your online ECT&E claim up to the statutory deadline of April 14, 2026. Please be aware that once itis submitted, you will not be able to alter your online ECT&E Claim. After submission, your online ECT&E Claim will be saved in your online account, and you will have access to download or print a copy at any time. Written requests for modification of a submitted claim must be emailed to civilservice@mass.gov on or before the deadline date April 14, 2026, and will be added to your record for this examination component.

Please email civilservice@mass.gov for any technical problems before the deadline date.

Supporting Documentation: HRD requires the submission of supporting documentation for all claims submitted in your online ECT&E Claim. Please attach electronic copies of this documentation (such as official college transcripts, copies of licenses and certifications, etc.) to the online ECT&E Claim or email to civilservice@mass.gov by April 14, 2026, by 11:59 pm.

Forms: Employment Verification Form

2026 ECT&E Examination Guide

Private Company Supervisor Form

Appeal Rights: Once you receive your examination score, you will have 17 calendar days from the emailing of your score to file an appeal of the scoring of your online ECT&E Claim by statute. No new type of credit can be claimed once you submit your online ECT&E Claim.

Claim Audits: After submission of your ECT&E claim AND during the life of the resulting eligible list, HRD reserves the right to conduct an audit of your ECT&E claim. Be prepared to provide copies of all supporting documentation submitted as part of this examination component to HRD or the appointing authority upon request.

Note: An explanatory reference guide with point allocations will be made available when exam scores are released.

There is no Benefit Code

01 Fire Departmental Promotional Eligibility: If you have been approved as eligible to take this exam, select your current department. If your department is not listed, please exit this application immediately and contact your employing department.

Amesbury
Attleboro
Bedford
Beverly
Brockton
Chelsea
Danvers
Dedham
Easthampton
Easton
Fairhaven
Fall River
Framingham
Haverhill
Holbrook
Hudson
Leominster
Ludlow
Marblehead
Methuen
Milford
Nahant
New Bedford
Newburyport
Plymouth
Quincy
Randolph
Salem
Saugus
Stoneham
Watertown
Weymouth
Woburn
Somerville
Springfield
Stoughton
Taunton
Tewksbury
Wakefield
Waltham
Whitman
Winchester
Winthrop
Worcester

02 25 Years of Service Promotional Preference Points: Upon submission of written proof, 2.0 points will be added to the passing score of qualified individuals who have completed 25 years of service worked as of the examination date as a member of a regular fire department in Massachusetts, and who have passed an examination for promotional appointment in such force. If you are qualified for both the Veteran's Preference and the Promotional Preference for 25 years of service, please be advised that 2.0 points are the maximum allowable number of points to be added to your passing, overall (general average) examination score, and you should not claim Promotional Preference Points in this question Do you wish to claim 25 years of service promotional preference points?

03 Verifying Experience Claims: Current department experience must be supported by a current, signed Employment Verification Form (EVF). Time in each rank must include a start and end date. Part-time: experience must include the total number of hours worked, or it will not be credited. When calculating part-time work, the total hours worked should be prorated based on a rate of 172 hours/month to produce a months-worked claim. Examples: 1. If a candidate worked part time for a total of 220 hours, the calculation would be 220 hours divided by 172 hours, resulting in 1.28 months of work. This would be rounded to credit for one month of work. 2. For 670 hours of part-time work, the calculation would be 670 hours divided by 172 hours, resulting in 3.89 months worked. This would be rounded on the claim form, for a submission of 4 months of employment. Breaks in Service: HRD will only grant credit for work experience for time spent actually working within a department. The first six months (180 consecutive days) of a leave of absence can be claimed as time worked on your EVF. Leaves of absences or breaks in service for more than six months must be recorded on the EVF and will not be counted toward work experience. No Double Counting: Do not claim work experience that occurred concurrently in more than one category. Any acting, provisional and/or temporary time submitted will be deducted from the next lower rank (e.g., acting time as a Captain will be subtracted from Lieutenant time). Crediting "Acting" Service: This experience may be claimed only in the exam title. Crediting "Provisional", or "Temporary After Certification" Service: This experience may be claimed in any promotional title. Rounding: Round experience to the nearest year. Round up to the next full year if your experience is 180 days or more beyond the last full year and round down to the previous full year if your experience is less than 180 days beyond the last full year (ex. If candidate X has 1 year and 185 days Fire Lieutenant experience, round up and select 2 years. If candidate X has 1 year and 160 days Fire Lieutenant experience, round down and select 1 year.) *For questions that are in month ranges, select the month range that your totaled months of experience falls within. If your total experience falls in between two options, select the nearest month (rounding up if it is 16 or more days beyond the last full month and rounding down if it is less than 16 days beyond the last full month). Please refer to the 2026 Fire Promotional ECT&E Examination Guide for all requirements. For all employment calculations, use the examination date. Select "Yes" to indicate you have read and understood these instructions.

04 Current Department Experience: Indicate how many year(s) of permanent Firefighter experience you have in your current department as of the examination date. Do not include time served after your first rank promotion.

No Experience
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
6 years
7 years
8 years
9 years
10 years
11 years
12 years
13 years
14 years
15 years
16 years
17 years
18 years
19 years
20 years
21 years
22 years
23 years
24 years
25 years
26 years
27 years
28 years
29 years
30 years
31 years
32 years
33 years
34 years
35 years
36 years
37 years
38 years
39 years
40 or more years

05 Current Department Experience: Indicate the amount of experience you have as an acting, provisional and/or temporary after certification Fire Lieutenant in your current department.

No acting/provisional
1 month up to 2 months
3 months up to 4 months
5 months up to 6 months
7 months up to 8 months
9 months up to 10 months
11 months up to 12 months
13 months up to 18 months
19 months up to 24 months
25 months up to 30 months
31 months up to 36 months
37 months up to 42 months
43 months up to 48 months
49 months up to 54 months
55 months up to 60 months
61 months or more

06 Outside Department Experience: Indicate how many year(s) of experience you have as a Firefighter in a department other than your current department.

No Experience
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
6 years
7 years
8 years
9 years
10 or more years

07 Outside Department Experience: Indicate how many year(s) of experience you have in a Fire Officer role (Lieutenant, Captain, District Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief) in a fire department other than your current department.

No Experience
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
6 years
7 years
8 years
9 years
10 or more years

08 Outside Experience: Indicate how many year(s) of supervisory experience you have outside of the fire service. This includes military, maritime service and private companies.

No Experience
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
6 years
7 years
8 years
9 years
10 years
11 years
12 years
13 years
14 years
15 years
16 years
17 years
18 years
19 years
20 years
21 years
22 years
23 years
24 years
25 years
26 years
27 years
28 years
29 years
30 or more years

09 Fire Departmental Promotional Education Claim Instructions: For all Fire Departmental Promotional Exams, HRD will grant ECT&E points only for whole and conferred degrees from regionally accredited higher education institutions, and not for individual semester hours or degree credits. Semester hours earned in an unfinished degree program or in a non-degree (Certificate) program are not eligible for ECT&E credit. Only one degree can be claimed, claim your highest ranked related degree for maximum credit. If you have multiple conferred degrees and have applied the same course credits from one degree to another, HRD will grant you full ECT&E points for one degree. HRD only recognizes degrees granted by: a) regionally accredited higher education institutions in the United States; or, b) institutions outside the United States granting degrees that are recognized by one of the United States regional accrediting agencies or that are transferable to a regionally accredited higher education institution in the United States. Please note that specializations/concentrations are NOT majors and will not be credited as such. Verifying Education Claims: Applicants must submit either official transcript for which they are requesting credit OR unofficial transcript AND diploma. Official transcript must indicate that the degree was in fact conferred, the major/field in which the degree was conferred and the conferral date. During the HRD review process or during the life of the resulting eligible list(s) applicants must make original supporting documentation available should the issue of authenticity arise with the submitted copies. Select "Yes" to indicate that you have read and understood these instructions.

10 Education: As of the examination date, if you have a related and/or unrelated conferred degree from a regionally accredited college or university, choose the highest-ranked related degree you have obtained*. Below is a list of related degree fields. Related Degree Fields: Biochemical Science, Business Administration, Business Management, Chemistry, Communications, Computer Science, Emergency Management, Executive/Organizational Leadership, Engineering (Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Building Construction, Fire Prevention Engineering), Fire Administration, Fire Safety, Fire Science, Fire Service, Homeland Security/Security and Intelligence Studies, Nursing, Occupational Safety, Paramedic Medicine, Public Administration, Psychology, Social Work. Non-Related Degree Fields: All other fields. *Note: the degrees below are listed in order of highest-ranked (Related Master's or higher Degree) to lowest-ranked (Unrelated Associate's Degree).

Related Master's or higher Degree
Related Bachelor's Degree
Related Associate's Degree
Unrelated Master's or higher Degree
Unrelated Bachelor's Degree
Unrelated Associate's Degree
No degree

11 EMT License: Indicate if you hold a current EMT Basic, Advanced or Paramedic license as certified by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) or National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) as of the examination date. Please select the most appropriate response based on current licensure.

No license
Active EMT Basic
Active EMT Advanced
Active Paramedic license

12 Relevant Certifications: As of the examination date, select all of the certifications that you have successfully obtained. Fire trainings and certifications will be accepted in a 3-tiered system. There will be three separate ECT&E questions that will capture the candidates relevant and accepted certifications. Each tier corresponds to a different level of points of the ECT&E score. Tier 3 is lowest value of points and tier 1 is the highest value of points. Select the relevant certification held within each tier. There is no limit of certifications claimed per tier; however, the maximum number of total trainings and certifications a candidate can be awarded across all tiers is eight. All training courses require documentation in the form of an awarded Pro-Board or FEMA/MEMA certificate. If a certificate is not provided, a Pro-Board or FEMA transcripts will be accepted. Certificates of attendance are not accepted.

Please select all Tier 1 certifications you have completed.

No certifications earned
Advanced Fire Investigation (Certificate of Completion)
Basic Fire Investigation (Certificate of Completion)
Chief Fire Officer MGMT Training (Certificate of Completion)
Fire Instructor I (Proboard)
Fire Investigation Essentials R0772 (FEMA/MEMA)
Fire Officer I (Proboard)
Fire Officer II (Proboard)
Fire Officer III (Proboard)
Fire Officer IV (Certificate of Completion)
Fire Prevention Officer Credentialing I (Certificate of Completion)
Fire Prevention Officer Credentialing II (Certificate of Completion)
Fire Prevention Officer Credentialing III (Certificate of Completion)
HazMat Technician (Proboard)
Safety Officer (Proboard)

13 Please select all Tier 2 certifications you have completed.

No certifications earned
Firefighter I (Select both for a "FF I/II Certificate") (Proboard)
Firefighter II (Select both for a "FF I/II Certificate") (Proboard)
Fire Instructor II (Proboard)
Fire Instructor III (Proboard)
Fire Prevention Officer I (Proboard)
Fire Prevention Officer II (Proboard)
Hazardous Materials Operations or Awareness Level (Proboard)
Public Fire Educator/PFALSE (Certificate of Completion) or Fire Life Safety Educator (Proboard)
Technical Rescuer: Confined Space Rescue I/II or Technician Level (FEMA/MEMA/Proboard)
Technical Rescuer: Ice Rescue I/II or Technician Level (FEMA/MEMA/Proboard)
Technical Rescuer: Rope Rescue I/II or Technician Level (FEMA/MEMA/Proboard)
Technical Rescuer: Structural Collapse Rescue I/II or Technician Level (FEMA/MEMA/Proboard)
Technical Rescuer: Surface Water I/II or Technician Level (FEMA/MEMA/Proboard)
Technical Rescuer: Swift Water Rescue I/II or Technician Level (FEMA/MEMA/Proboard)
Technical Rescuer: Trench Rescue I/II or Technician Level (FEMA/MEMA/Proboard)
ICS 300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents (FEMA/MEMA)
ICS 400: Advanced ICS (FEMA/MEMA)

14 Please select all Tier 3 certifications you have completed.

No certifications earned
Driver Operator/Pumper (Proboard)
Driver Operator Aerial (Proboard)
ICS 100. Introduction to the Incident Command System (FEMA/MEMA)
ICS 200: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response (FEMA/MEMA)
ICS 700: An Introduction to the National incident Management System (FEMA/MEMA)
ICS 800: National Response Framework, An Introduction (FEMA/MEMA)
Fire Investigation: First Responder W0770 (FEMA/MEMA)
Fire Investigation: First Responder S0770 (FEMA/MEMA)

15 Relevant Trade Licenses: As of the examination date, select all trade licenses you have obtained from the list below. For all trade license(s) claimed, you must attach a copy of the current license including the license number and issuing agency. Only one trade will be accepted in each of the relevant categories. You can receive credit for holding up to two trade licenses, on the list of accepted trades. Relevant categories: Blasting Certificate of Competency, Boiler & Pressure Valve, Construction Supervisor, Driver's Licenses, Electrician, Fire Alarm Systems, Fire Equipment Certificate of Competency, Fireworks & Special Effects Certificates of Competency, Hoisting Engineer, Hood Cleaning Certificate of Competency, Gas Fitter, Mariner: Operator of Uninspected Pass., Pipe Fitter, Plumber, Professional Engineer Licenses, Refrigeration, Sheetmetal Worker, Sprinkler Fitter.

No trade licenses
Blasting Certificate of Competency
Boiler & Pressure Valve: Technician, All Classes of Fireman and Engineer Licenses
Construction Supervisor: Restricted, Unrestricted
Driver's Licenses: Class A & Class B
Electrician: Journeyman, Master
Fire Alarm Systems: Technician, Contractor
Fire Equipment Certificate of Competency: CC-41, CC-46, CC-47, CC-48
Fireworks & Special Effects Certificates of Competency
Hoisting Engineer: Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4
Hood Cleaning Certificate of Competency: Unrestricted
Gas Fitter: Journeyman, Master, Limited, Limited Undiluted
Mariner: Operator of Uninspected Pass. Vehicles, Master Inland, Master Near Coastal
Pipe Fitter: Journeyman, Master
Plumber: Journeyman, Master
Professional Engineer Licenses
Refrigeration: Technician, Contractor
Sheetmetal Worker: Journeyman, Master
Sprinkler Fitter: Journeyman, Contractor, Fire Protection