The article reveals the problem of social and labor confl icts in the units of the fi re service. The theoretical basis of the study was the classical postulates on the nature of social contradictions and the role of confl icts in everyday practices of the service team, proposed within the structural-functional approach by G. Simmel and R. Darendorff . The article is based on the results of the author's study of social and labor confl icts in one of the fi re and rescue units of Saratov region.