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Professional activity can provide positive emotions, personal and professional fulfillment, but can also be a source of stress that gradually wears (Vara, 2007). In activities that requires an intense and emotional effort, and even a direct contact with pain and death, burnout becomes a problem (Maslach, Schaufeli & Leiter, 2001). The worker's own expectations about their work and the interactions within the professional task are important determinants for job satisfaction and are related with specific emotions. Although there are several studies on burnout in different professions, is scant literature on the work of the firefighters and the constraints they face, ignoring the fact that the quality of services may be affected by each professional experience. According to some studies (Gil