Oh man. I think you're even more of a badass now.I thought all fire fighters were interior fire fighters…Not quite. Interior firefighting is incredibly dangerous and you need to undergo rigorous training of navigating through unfamiliar rooms filled with smoke. You can get easily disoriented in such environment and you need to keep your cool. I've seen my share of such exercises (never actually undergone one) from the time I was training to be a rescueworker.
exactamondo!how it works, in our dept at least, and all the ones i know of, you begin as exterior, which is a fire fighter over 18 who hasnt been through Fire Fighter 1 (fire fighter class) as exterior, you help with things in the "cold zone" which is you cant go into a dangerous incident and work on it directly, but you do things like change fire fighter's SCBA tanks (air bottles) when they get low, set up traffic cones, shit like that. interior is just like PP said. for us, we had to go through 5 months of training, both hands on and class room. at the end we take 2 tests, a practical which has 7 stations of hands on work, then about a week later, we have our written test from the state. the state takes forever to process though so the class has been over for almost a month now and we've still been waiting on results. my cheif got a letter in the mail and told me the other day though, so im friggin extatic!BEER TIME!…AGAIN!
and thank you irons! that's a sign of a true friend,haha!
this is true. and as proff, i have george thurogood and zz top playing on a loop where ever i go. i dont know where it comes from, it just plays because i let it.
