 Hey kids, how y'all doing. My name is David China. I'm an engineer here with the Columbia Fire Department. I drive the truck from call to call. I've been with the department a little over 10 years. Some of the things I do when I first get in, I have to come in, I have to check my truck out, check the tires and everything, make sure everything's ready to go because I got to get you to and from everywhere. I chose this job because it's something I love. I love helping people. I have my pants and my boots. So basically when we get ready for a call, take my duty boots off and I put these right here on. My suspenders, hold my pants up. Again, blasts off. Next, put my flash hood on. So I can protect my ears and my neck. Next off, we put my coat on. My air pack on. Make sure everything's nice and sparkly. Next, one of the most important pieces, put my air mask on. Let's go. Put my helmet on. All ready to go. Not quite yet. Put my air pack on. Now we have on our air packs a microphone so you can hear me a little better now. Then last, and certainly not least, I'll put your gloves on. Here you go, fight some fire. All right, first and foremost, you have to make good grades at school. Finish with a high school diploma at least. Go through the regular firefighting training. What I have to do for my specific job, you have to go through different driver training courses, learn how to operate the truck. You go to classes throughout your career. Reading, writing, math, and science. Every day I have to read different reports that are being sent out by our chiefs. I have to write reports. I have to know a lot of math to operate my truck. And it's a lot of science into the way things work here at the fire department. So this is what I'm running my truck. A lot of the things that I have to do, I have to take into different calculations how much water I'm getting into my truck, how much water I'm putting out, I have to calculate if my pump could take that to send the guy's water. One of the most exciting and interesting things is something different every day. Something's different. It's a lot of things we might run the same but every shift, every day, there's something different that we run that we've never seen before. One of the things, do good in school. Listen to your parents, your teachers, and the older people who tell you to do the right things because it helps out the lower. What do you know now that you wish you knew when you were in school? One of the things that I know now that I wish I knew in school was when you get older, there's no spring break, no summer breaks. Respect, accountability, and integrity are three of the main characteristics you need for this job because you want to meet people that you've never seen before at their worst day. So you need to respect what they're going through. You need to be accountable when they're all cost. If you mess something up, you need to be the one to own up to that and integrity. That means you need to do the right thing when no one is even watching. I want to thank you all for spending this time with me. I hope you can take the fire department and think of it as a career. This is a great career. I've been doing it for 10 plus years. I can't find myself doing anything else. Thanks, guys.