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  • If you don't like school full time firefighting may not be for you. All paid departments I know of require at least an EMT- B, and to maintain your license you need to continue to take classes to get CEU's. In Illinois I believe that's 140 hours every four years for just a BASIC license. Not to mention the fire classes... NIMS, RIT, HAZMAT (IL requires 28 hours of HAZMAT), Tech Rescue, FF II/FF Basic Ops (240 hrs or so in IL), special training (i.e. farm rescue for my volly dept.), etc, etc, etc

  • wheres the next part?

  • and what they dont show on this is the emotional stress and the heartbrake that comes with it. im 16 and a PFF/EMT

  • That fire instructor at the beginning reminds me of Al Pacino.

  • What an idiot! That fire wasn't even close to 1200 Degrees. And where was the instructors hood before he went in!! Plus i have done all that already so i don't need a stupid T.V.show to prove it. Give that guy a 250psi and he would be flying!

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  • haha 1200 degrees, false.

  • i went to the bergen county law and public safety institute class 382 my instructors told me boots gloves and helmet at all times while your on the fireground at any time

  • anyone notice the fire instructor with no gloves on.

  • I've been told at training to never swing the tool in a swipe because u can injur the person but idk

  • So ugly helmets, german helmets are the best.

  • @TheHeavyDamage that's a matter of taste. i wish i had an american traditional style helmet here in germany.

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  • Yes You go Guys Firefighting IS the best job in the USA cant out source this job!!! OBAMA!

  • I feel less hetero after watching this nerd. adrenaline my A, this clown didn't do anything. Why do we allow these jokers to make a mockery of our profession so he can collect a paycheck?

  • @lozerkilla I agree, this guy i s sooo a nerd doesnt know the first thing ...

  • Greatest job in the world

  • 1. 1200 degrees my ass.

    2. The instructor made himself and the academy look bad by not wearing full ppe.

    3. The "student" didn't have the nomex on his helmet down.

    4. His hood is all the way over his mask.

  • 1700??? Doesn't flashover usually occur around 1500? U should he dead

  • anywhere above 1000 degrees and flashover conditions are there, it's not a set at this temperature flashover will happen, there are a variety of other factors, fuel load for example

  • Richeykw

    We do this competition at my firehouse who can hold a inch and 3/4 no back up highest psi and u said 250 impossible I tell you it is I my self have reaches 190/200 just goto keep going at it you can do it .

    Fdny engine 1

  • Haha that guy's PASS keeps going off xP

  • 1200 degrees? my fire fighter one burn was 1700, my face was baking haha but it was worth it best day of my life!

  • I gotta say.. not close to a real structure fire if it is with gas.. you don't hear the crackle of the fire burning.. nor can you see it develop properly.. just my $0.02

  • like how the fire instructor went in without his hood or gloves... hahaha

  • @southernhostility, 250psi at the nozzle? Your out of ur mind...nobody could hold that...ever. now 250gpm would be reasonable....even with 150psi or 200 psi @ the truck, depending on your line length, it wouldn't be that bad. More gpm means less psi. More psi means less gpm.

  • Firemast2......not true. Fog has its place on the fire ground. You know just as I do that the arguement for s.s. over fog has gone on for yrs and will continue 4 yrs to come.

  • Funny.....that was nothing. But not bad for a crash course.

  • 140 hours? We had 450

  • If you don't like medical stuff then don't become a firefighter, and don't just get the paramedic license cause you want better chances to be a paid firefighter either. You need to actually enjoy doing that stuff, and actually care for patients!!! I hate when I see people get the paramedic license just because they want to get hired.

  • i love firefighting

  • he was impressed witrh 200 gallons a minute...wonder how hed fell about a blitzfire-750 a minute.

  • 1200 degrees my ass

  • maybe 100'F .... weak

  • @SNS8R03

    Are you in the fire industry? If so have you EVER been off of the truck or out of the station? Burn houses like that can get extremely hot in a matter of minutes. It's not all gumdrops & lollipops, this guy at least admitted he was only there for the day & not the full course.

  • @riocowboy77 thanks 4 ur feedback. To answer ur question, 13 years with a city dept. I've been to many burn simulator over my years. I assume you r in the service too. I understand he is only there for a day and he is a TV host. Just from what I see in this video, Ive noticed the instructor did not go into the simulator with his hood on - if that is the case then they won't be running full flame. 2nd, I see two doorways that were open and a exterior vent screen to this room - so maybe a tad mor

  • @SNS8R03

    Yes sir, I haven't been in the service quite that long but I've grown up with all of my family being firefighters, my grandfather being in for over 35 years. I understand what you're saying now.

  • ok for one.... firefighters are born and not made!!

  • THIS IS B.S.!! THE TRAINER HAS NO GLOVES ON!!!

  • @RTD8481  also is missing a hood too

  • lol 1200 degrees my ass his mask isn't spidered his visor isn't melted that fire aint that hot

  • This is embarrassing to see

  • He needs to keep his hand on the shit off valve on the nozzle at all times. That's a basic habit that is taught right away.

  • i have handled the handline by myself with 100lbs of pressure...i was in the burn prop...its not bad

  • gah! wheres part 2!? lol

  • It's always nice to see firefighters represented. However, I wish they would get it right.... 1,200 degrees? I wish my bare hands and ears could withstand that... Please tell me there are a few other instructors there following NFPA 1403 and leading by example by putting their gear on correctly?

  • if you notice towards the end, the firefighters PAL alarm starts to go off beings he wasnt moving for a little bit lol

  • you said "hooah"....i now think you are a turd

  • Wow in our dept the truck would already be out of sight by the time he got geared up.

  • i think its funny how people dont get the strength behind are hoses..... give him a 2.5 with a straight bore nozzel at just 100 psi he deff wont think its easy at all... 

  • @tigerfootball90 Fuck that give em 250 psi

  • @SouthernHostility13 make them hold a master stream!

  • @tigerfootball90

    my first time i ripped tyhe skin off my hand.....i still have the scars lol it aint easy

  • @firedude201234 That's why you should Always have You're gloves and Put them on

  • It’s not as easy as it looks he’s right, it’s not like playing with a garden hose.

  • This is pretty cool... I just graduated from my fire academy in June. It was the best thing I did. I wish we had a nice burn facility like that... we have a burn building. Its all concrete and we attach plywood on the walls on the inside. We only did hay and pallet fires. I wish we could have something like this.....

  • That happened to me with the hose a couple days ago. We were doing drills and I was suppose to be shooting out the window until the hydrant arrived. He arrived so the captain told me to turn off the hose. Next think you know the instructor comes yelling at me to turn it back on. I thought my captain was behind me but I guess not. Luckily there was a wall 5 feet back.

  • LOl cut the guy some slack it's his first day lol.. I'm pretty sure as a Army Ranger he can handle his part in the Fire service maybe not first day but soon enough. I'm kinda peeved they passed on a show like this one. C'mon nothing is more exciting than the Fire Service...

  • this is sick went i went to ff school it was just like this but wtf he was using a straight not the fog fog is more effective

  • @nyfdRIP actually fog will get u killed due to the water vapor stright is more effective in a structure fire

  • They shoulda set up a training burn with a real house. It woulda been alot better

  • Im at a fire academy in florida and our burn building is very similar to what that was. I like how the instructor said its not as easy as it looks. spot on. whats wrong with A&E maybe discorvery or msnbc will take it?

  • You should try USCG Rescue Swimming.

  • Nice gloves on that old school Academy Chief. He is waving his hands around to direct the stream in the burn room while standing in maybe a couple hundred degrees of heat, clearly not the temps that the actor stated.

    Most controlled gas fired rooms never achieve the same amount of heat as a real non-controlled fire. The systems computer controlled ventilation fans will kick on so nobody will get hurt.

  • Screw A&E this show would have been sick!

  • @4:55 100 PSI TRY A 2" WITH 150 PSI

    @8:35 SHAKE YA ASS LOL

    nice yeah i agree with gower22 thats barely a taste of the life but a pretty good video

  • This is a very good concept, It's quick to the point and straight forward. I liked it alot... Wish I could see more, I'm about to turn 19 and have been in the fire service since 16 and it's been a huge passion for me since i was 2 years old making SCBA's out of misc supplies and vacuum parts..

    But if you could upload this to a file sharing website and post a link that'd be great.. But I'd definatly watch this series.. The only con about it, its not original. Had to be honest.

  • nice my dad is a fire instrutor at passic county.

  • Great PR video, Thanks for highlighting our career.

  • Nice Video. It's a nice Job to help people from risk situations but it's hard.

    Greetings from Germany

  • Does anyone has te full episode?

  • Some of you are ridiculous. If you're in high school, just concentrate on that. I don't know too much about volly departments and how it works with explorers, but just finish high school. Not all of you will make it as a full-time firefighter. Even if you do, you might get hurt. Get your education just in case.

    NO, you do not need to be a paramedic. I never plan on being one. I work for the DCFD on one of the busiest companies in the city. So I've got a little bit of experience.

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  • ya no joke to get good money on the FD u got to have paramedic... my junior and sophomore and senior years i can have my emt 2 at least by the time i graduate which will be nice cuz they i get my firefighter 2 or 3 and finish to get paramedic and im set.

  • part2?

  • nobody can stand going into a 1000 degree room...idoit.

  • hahaha 5 to 6 hundred degrees is like the minimum for a fire.even controlled fires are hot as hell

  • 95% of the time firefighers are actually paramedics.

  • I am a volly. in my town and to actually think its only get to 500 600? Come down to Middletown NJ and ill give you a run for your money in the burn room and that's just controlled.

  • i am a firefighter and to think a fire only gets to 5 to 6 hundred ur full of shit

  • Smalltownfiregirl,

    yeah im going the same route as you, Im going to take paramedics in college because thats what you need these days to get paid well as a firefighter! Yeah this fall im taking it, because seriosuly Firefighting is the best JOB in whole wide world;) Wish you the Best=)

  • being a firefighter IS the best job in thee whole wide world!! and its not always just about how much your getting paid your constantly saving lives and making a difference! im only a fire explorer right now lol im 14 but hope that one day i make it as a full on firefighter!!!!!!

  • @andreybigb2343 Paramedic or emt? cause im thinking of taking it up also to get paid well. Message with any ideas.

  • @BYOB561 Well all firefighters have to be EMT's, When you become a volunteer usually the department will pay for your EMT classes, but if you want to be paid! then I would recommend getting your paramedic license. You would be very valuable. Where I live, we have 90% medical calls, 10% fire calls.

  • @andreybigb2343 I have a question, I want to be a firefighter when i grow up, Should i take the EMT basics in college and learn about that stuff and then go to the fire academy????

  • @paintbllwizard When your done with high school, call your local fire dept ask about becoming a volunteer firefighter. Then you have to take written test and physical, after you pass you can go on and take your emt, the department usually will pay for them, then after about 6 months maybe less, the department puts you through fire academy!! if you like both medic and fire side, get your paramedic license, that will increase your chances of getting hired as a paid firefighter by 300%.

  • @andreybigb2343 some fire dept allow you to only take a ERT course, Which allows you to act under supervision on an EMT. And like BYOB561 said 90% is medical & mva's so medical training is a must

  • @andreybigb2343 Its not a job bud, its a way of life. good luck, and be safe.

  • @ags813 well said

  • Yes I'am, i just dont get paid yet, Im gona take my paramedics classes this following fall.

  • hey so your going the same route as I am then eh? or do you just wanna further your medical knowledge?

  • Congrats bro

  • are you a real firefighter?

  • LOL!!!! LOL!!!! that is not 1200 degrees! the instructor is not wearing gloves, his skin would burn, and the camra is inside!

  • Awesome video/series!!

  • hey i wana be a firefighter does any1 know if u have 2 graduate high school 2 be one

  • yeah you do

  • what if u just get a GED

  • it really depends i know my dept doesnt but, call up your local dept and they would probably be more than happy to talk to you about it.

  • ok thanks ill do that

  • if your too lazy to graduate high school youll never make it as a fireman.

  • im only motivated to do things i care about and high school isnt one of them and firefighter is

  • yeeah you kinda need highschool for this shit.. and college..

  • you'll never make it as a firefighter if you dont finish highschool, these days you cant really do anything without your grade 12. I hated school sooo much but i did it now im on a volunteer dpt and going to college come september to do a paramedic pogram .. which will help me get into a fulltime fire dpt .. you need to get yourr education if it kills you .. u just have to

  • if u get ur GED is that just as good 2 them

  • u dont have to to be a vol but id be hard to get a career job as one with a hs degree. im going to school to get a college degree in it.

  • Not to be a volunteer fir fighter

  • well i wana get paid and be a real one

  • why dont you be smart and graduate...

  • well thats what i wana do is be a firefighter so if u dont needa graduate y bother

  • 12 hundred degrees my ass! The chief didnt even have his gloves on plus he was standing up. Propane burn like that with the simulated smoke I give you 800 degrees tops! By the way sorry for all of the criticism from everyone but if youve ever walked into a firehouse youd understand its in our nature haha

  • This guy is a freaking pus, Ok first off it may be 1200 degress at the cieling but around where your body is in the room it might be 300 tops, especaily with a gas burn like this. To get a decent feel for a real fire you have to use wood pallets and hay. This guy would shit him self inside a real working house fire. But for a video stand point, it is fairly ok. If you dont know anything about firefighting it is an ok demonstration. But he wouldnt cut it in the real world.

  • He Was An Army Ranger Faggot. I Believe He Did Cut It In The Real World

  • 2 man job to gear up i get all that on in under 2 minutes and he cant handle 90 p.s.i. alone i remember handling 140 on my own because i didnt have a choice, u either suck it up or you lose a house

  • Some army ranger he mustve been if he couldnt handle 90 psi this is a disgrace to firefighters

  • All Fire Fighters Use 2 People No Matter The PSI, its a safety measure

  • @casams1992 yea but he says in the video that he cant handle the pressure so another guy has to position the hose and aim it

  • this video is ok i mean honestly no gloves it was prolly only a few hundred degrees because my 1st fire i felt it the second i went in the window to push the fire back into the garge

  • ROFL

  • Haha this isn't legit.

    First off, 1200 degrees? If it was 1200 degrees, he would be dead. Turnout gear only does so much. And the instructor had no gloves on, there wasn't shit for heat in there.

  • fires do actually get up to 12oo degrees, a house fire can get up to 2000, they have special turnout gear that can protect up to that temp.

  • bucker gear will protect u up to 2500 degrees

  • i dont think so those are beyond flashover conditions and people get burned in flashovers all the time, firefighters handbook says 800 degrees for 35 seconds before turnouts go 20 seconds for gloves and hood

  • u will be dead if u are in a room thats 2500 degrees man

  • u dont know what ur talking about, su then

  • @x0unreal0x  im a fire cadet

  • well u're a stupid cadet than:D a normal fire is 500-600degrees, think u're a liar:D

  • Our burn building goes up to 1500 degrees. That's what we're gonna have to train at

  • @moporama Horse shit! No way your gear is rated for 1500.

  • he felt the heat through his mask? the instructor dont even wears gloves :D

  • Gas training is good in the point that it allows you to learn to work the hose but it is nothing compaired to a good Class A burning fire. The heat from the gas fires is no match to anything a real fire produces.

  • nice video

    im volunteer firefighter in the Netherlands

    watch my video's at vcmovie

    keep making the video's we do also

    bey gr berend

  • So heres a clue, @ 7:30 the instructor helps him into the supposed 1200 degree room, but wait a sec. The instructor isnt wearing gloves! how can that be? Is he some sort of super firefighting god? No!!!!! The ambient temperature in that room is maybe 200-300 degrees, and thats if you get really close to the fire. Gas training fires dont teach anything except how to extinguish a big BBQ fire!

  • Firefighting is a HUGE adrenaline rush, training is fun but nothing like a real structure fire, you will never get used to it haha. Its the best feeling in the world I LOVE it!

  • The adrenaline you get in a burn tower is nowhere near what you get going into a real working structure fire. No matter how many times i do it, its always a huge rush! Gotta love it!

  • hahah this guy is a show host and doesnt want to do this for a living give him a break lol for even doing this outside after watching videos on here and researching the career i cant not wait for Academy!

  • Are you serious!!! ive been throught both gas and combustible burn rooms and there is nooooooo way either on of those rooms ever reached a 1000 degrees!!! Screw gas trainning if u want to be a F.F. youve got to train like you play wheres the smoke!!!!!

  • no shit.....haha he makes us sounds badass but hes babying it. lets give him a real fire, or make him carry a high rise pack and a tool for about ten stories. haha something

  • this guy didnt go through anything yet. If that guy is an instructor and it was realistic he would have his nomex and gloves on, but he is showing a lot of bare skin. I want to see if he can stand going into an actual 1000 degree room.

  • That's great but i am a volunteer firefighter in PA and those conditions were nothing compared to the test.... let alone the real thing. he had it easy. light smoke and it ventilated rather well so he had added light.

  • yeah, it had to be tailored to the fact that we were filming it so we kept the smoke light so people could see what was going on, and despite wrapping the cameras in nomex, we needed to keep it relatively bearable for the camera guys.

  • well that explains a lot, but if he wants the closest to the real thing, he should do it the way it is in the test. in my test the fire was rolling right over my head and back. and trust me that is an experience not to be soon forgotten.

  • Im a volunteer firefighter in PA too. Lawrence county station 1600

  • It ok but there are never a controled fire

  • an italian guy can join FdnY?

  • What?

  • can an italian guy join the fdny?

  • Are you 21,drive,a U.S. citizen,hold a driver's license valid in New York State,a resident of one of the five boroughs of New York City, or live in Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk or Westchester County,Be a Certified First Responder with Defibrillation (CFR-D),Have at least 15 college semester credits? If yes then yea, you can. Theres more info on their website.

  • i m an italian guy,but i m not resident in the us...so i could come to NY,obtain a residence and then?

  • dovresti avere la cittadinanza americana,

  • intresting :)

  • Nice concept keep at it

    As for the rest chill guys it a one day crash course for a tv skit not actual training for a new recruit

  • did u watch the whole thing?...its all controlled.....by switches....so ya in a real fire ya thats a dumb fuck move....but then again...lead by example right,,,,and train liek its the real thing..

  • I like this idea for the show it would have been great

  • does any one know where i can find the full episode if so thanks

  • Sorry guys... I only cut one segment for this. it was a pilot i made to pitch the show to A&E. unfortunately, it was a no go... maybe down the road we'll get it on, but I was in a few weeks ago talking about a "deadliest catch" type firefighter show

  • ok now, where was the instructors gloves when he went in the burn building?? he had everything else but gloves

  • beranek57, the instructor also did not have a nomex hood on either

  • Old Timers man...can't beat em. His way more bad ass then I could ever hope to be.

  • haha...my dad was a volunteer.....back in the day....and he calls all the shit we wear is for wimps haha made me laugh....he said htat when he knew when it was to hot was when his ears couldnt take it no more....man gotta give it to them old timers.....no hoods...no mask sometimes....just straight up balls

  • OK why does this ass keep saying he's going into a 1200 degree room.. If it was that hot it would flash first of all and second of all the instructor standing up wouldn't last 3 seconds..

  • Haha I am a firefighter in Passaic county and that instructor Dave is on the other company in town. i been in that burn room bout a thousand times. so weird to see lol.

  • same here i was at the academy last summer

  • god what i would do to see this guy handle a duce and a half. he would be knocked on his ass. wht was he using a inch and a half or inch and three quarter?

  • hell yeah hand em a 2 1/2 with a smooth bore and watch him fly away haha

  • 1 3/4

  • wow im a jr and im better than that on the nozzle

  • turn on the fog asshole and hit it high

  • Seriously? Turn on the fog and hit it high? What fire academy taught you that? You'll burn yourself worse with the steam from the fog than the fire would...

  • im sorry for calling you an Ahole... its just that i see him all over the place with that hose.... and he was letting it spresd on the ceiling

  • Haha.. no worries, you weren't calling me one. I'm just saying that no firefighter in their right mind would ever open a fog high on a fire... so ya kinda sound like an idiot for saying to do that :P If you're going to critique, know what you're talking about.

  • 1) its is first time

    2) its a fucking tv show

  • i agreed, i don't know what i would be like if i go in for my first time. no one is born as a firefighter. tho i would like to try that as well.

  • @kameronbc21 I was thinking the same myself as watching it , if he done that in serious hot fire training he would be scalded no matter what gear he had on

  • Oh, hey Dak. <_<

  • Its Kendall btw, Keep these coming dude.

  • Nice Leonard, I like it.

    Im at the academy right now, haha