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What's going on in there? I just got reports that they got water on the fire

they've made an entry on the east side advanced down this hallway.

They're in the fire room currently working on fire

All right, and action.

I can't think of more manly profession than firefighters.

They are strong. They are courageous.

They have chilly competition.

Everybody loves firefighters, but nobody's signing up. We all lack of

And that's the problem. We really need firefighters.

They are the ones that are running, force the fire when everybody else is

running away from it. So in this episode, I'm going to spend a day and

a fireman to show how important it is what they do.

And to show you, how fun it is to use that freaking hose.

Well, today we're at a fire station.

We will get in the hot block. That is going to be up to 1 ,200 degrees.

Holy... I do my frozen pizza at 350.

I'm getting into 1 ,200 today, so you guys will enjoy me being sweaty, hot,

going through pain, and then I'm going to die at the end of the day. I'm

I'm not going to die. I'm going to try not to die.

I have to sign a waiver so we're willing to die for free.

The one thing that they said is if you're claustrophobic, you're not going

well in there. I'm extremely claustrophobic, so it's going to be

We're going to do a professional fitting.

I'm a little bit nervous, like a good nervous, you know.

I'm going to mess up my beautiful hair. It takes me about five minutes to do it.

I bet you that hairspray you wear is flammable.

Oh, it probably is. It's definitely flammable. Yeah.

No, this is no joke.

Yeah, I'm good. My first professional fitting in my career.

Is this like fire resistant? How this works?

They're fire resistant, not fireproof.

It will burn just like this shirt will burn. Just not as fast.

Excellent. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.

Really looking forward to not dying. Thank you.

Funny thing about this mask.

When I was a kid, my great -great...

great grandpa's house who was fighting in the world war ii he would have like a

mask like a gas mask like that and we would just wear them all the time so

actually when i put it on i was like ah i think i'll be okay being a fireman is

action -packed and unpredictable so we couldn't waste any time in case

went down so after i got my gear they showed me around the firehouse and i got

to meet some firemen

We're here with Captain Miller. Tell me why firefighter?

Honestly, it was a blessing in disguise.

As soon as I got into the fire service and got through training and got to see

the Brotherhood and actually what the fire service was truly about, I couldn't

have picked a better career.

Tell me about Brotherhood. It's talked about and it's kind of a cliche term,

it's real.

We're here really to mainly appreciate what you all do.

Show the people how important it is what you do, how much you sacrifice daily.

Put him through as much hell as you can.

That's the goal.

Friend. What kind of friend is that?

That's really kind of what drew me in was the brotherhood teamwork once you've

established that trust.

I mean, there's nothing greater.

And I think it's like essential ingredients.

Yeah. For healthy functioning for any man, I think, nowadays.

It's natural to crave, like, a belonging to somewhere.

And even if you're not getting along with them, they're still your brother.

And just then, the alarm went off, and everybody got fired up.

I'm sorry for the joke. We were out the door on a call within 30 seconds.

We're responding to an emergency call right now somewhere in Hendersonville.

I don't know what's happening, but we're on the call.

They are cool -out cucumbers, and I'm pretty stressed.

People are not moving.

People don't know how to behave on the roads for shit. If there is an emergency

vehicle, move your ass to the side. It's absolutely insane.

We don't know what happened.

We can't show any patient right now because we want to respect their privacy

They are cool off cucumbers.

I'm panicked Looks like the patient's already in the ambulance.

How long it took?

Strap yourself in So basically within 30 seconds, we were all in the truck. Yeah

within top three minutes. We were at the scene Within next 30 seconds. I saw the

patient rolling into the ambulance.

Yeah And that was it It all took maybe five minutes, and we're on the way back?

Yep, sometimes less, sometimes more.

I can tell you that much. The adrenaline definitely was going through me as we

got on that call.

Now imagine that, but 2 o 'clock in the morning, you're asleep, you've been in

bed for three, four, five hours, and you go to 100 % like that.

Tones drop, you're dead asleep, you wake up, and you're going to a fire, a

medical call, a car accident on the freeway.

You don't need a coffee.

No, it gets you up. You're awake. You're probably up the rest of the night,

maybe. Can you tell me about your personal worst call you've ever been on?

Probably the worst was a gunshot wound to the head.

And it was probably the worst because it was someone involved in emergency

medicine.

So it was a fellow brother, in a sense. And to see it, he thought that was his

only way out.

That was pretty rough.

Each time those tones drop and we get called out, it's usually their worst

How that affects you as a man?

In the beginning, before I had kids, I shared a lot of stories with my wife.

then as the years have gone on and the calls have kind of stacked up, they

are my lifeline. The guy is here. So when I need to vent or talk, I do it to

them because they get it.

They understand what we go through.

They are the reason why I'm halfway mentally ill.

I think we take it for granted all trauma first responders go through. Just

police, firemen are often seeing lifetime worth of trauma per week.

Like Captain Miller was saying, our worst day is just a normal day for them.

It takes a lot of courage to put yourself through that, and it's

keep us all safe.

I'm very grateful that they are willing to do it.

Let's talk about the most funny situation you've been on call.

Maybe a cat in a tree. I've actually been to a cat in a tree. We weren't able

help them, but we told them they'll come down, you know, and sure enough, the

cat came down.

Good guy.

Man, such a good guy.

What does it take to be a good firefighter?

This is when training and practice, repetition, it's repetition.

It's facing your fears if it's, you know, being a little claustrophobic, if

climbing ladders, you know, just kind of facing those fears.

It's practice, repetition.

Insane. Yeah, that was insane.

Yeah. That was so quick.

And that'll happen maybe no time, maybe 20 times in a day.

Awesome. You good?

Hey, we got another call. We got another call. Yeah, so we got another one. You

guys want to roll?

Yeah, right?

We were just back at the station for about 15 seconds. We were going for

call.

Busy days.

This episode is about courage.

And if you know me enough, you know that heights and Pavel don't go well

together. So you can imagine what firefighters are planning for me.

We are here with Senior Firefighter Austin.

We're going to go way up on this baby.

I hate heights.

Right here is where we hook in.

How this is not clipping through?

No way?

It's just like 50 -50. You kind of hope. You hope it doesn't.

So we're clipped, ready to go.

Say, bucket to turntable.

You know, ready to fly the ladder.

Roger, roger. We're ready to go.

Uh, damn.

I really hate heights. I hate heights, man.

Damn.

That's already high enough for me.

And that's safe. You're saying that's safe.

Safe enough.

If not, when we hit the ground, you'll go quick.

That is not something you want to hear when you're, like, what, 20 feet up in

the air?

All right, so he gave us the controls at this point, so now we can do whatever

we want. Yeah, let's go down then. You say go up?

This height is my height.

Is it like 12 feet off the ground? That's my height, man.

I have to move the outriggers out a little more because it's weighing a

bit. Oh, okay.

What's happening?

It shifted up a little bit. They're just resetting it.

We're not going up again, are we? He said he's good. We're good. We're good.

it was awesome.

They're not doing it again. No, we're good.

We're good. We're good.

We're going up, aren't we?

Holy shit.

And we're next to the church too. Oh my God.

Look, there's the drone right there. We're higher than the drone.

Whoa! We're going to take it up a little higher.

No, we're good.

Oh, God.

So that right there is pretty much fully extended.

This is about as high as it gets.

Yeah,

this is great. We can go down. So we're going to go down now. So do you want to

do this? No, you're good. You do you.

No, you're good.

It's beautiful, but I hate it, man. I hate it.

I take the hot box microwave on fire over this. Yeah.

Thousand percent.

All right, we did it.

Wait, wait.

Nope. I didn't shit myself. We good.

Then it was finally time to put out the fire. They have this whole training

facility where they can burn cars and put them out or burn a building made out

of shipping containers that they can crawl through and put it out.

they told me earlier that's really what they do they crawl on their hands and

knees because the air is full of smoke and it's 2 000 degrees on the top of the

room just remember you know anything that burns smoke rises right hits the

ceiling and bounces off yeah i'm a firefighter now how do i

look with this big ass hat

And what was your name again? I'm Pavel. What's your name again? Pavel.

Pavel. Pavel.

Captain Townsend.

We are here with Captain Townsend. Yes, sir.

And we'll walk through what's going to happen today and how we're going to put

out that fire in this big microwave thingy.

And we'll try not to die. And I really want to not die. We got you. We got you.

So this will be our front door.

And we will enter through here. This will be our living room area.

This is simulating a bedroom right here and then we'll come into this hallway

and we're going to advance the line all the way down this hallway into our fire

room and my goal is to get you and the nozzleman to about this point here. For

the first scenario we'll have our doors open so the heat won't be bad.

The second scenario we're going to tighten this box up a little bit and all

openings will be closed.

The heat is going to be 11, 1200 degrees if we stand up, which we try to prevent

standing up at all costs.

And then down on the floor, it'll be between three and 400 degrees at the

depending on how hot we can get the box.

So we have thermal imaging cameras, so we'll be able to see. You won't be able

to see anything, but we'll be able to see you. We'll be able to see you.

We'll come in, put the fire out.

Once the fire is under control, we'll just back out the same way we came in.

Rolling. Yes, sir.

Any questions?

No. Let's just, you know, not in a rude way, let's get it over with.

Understood. Let's get it over with.

They have the hose ready now.

I want to try it if I can. Yeah.

Go for it.

Try to hold it a little lower.

Towards you more.

There you go.

Okay.

Okay.

This is some next level shit!

You wanna get sprayed with it? I'm gonna die, right?

Go for it!

Good work, man. I thought you were going to flip me, dude.

So the big moment has come.

I'm about to enter 1 ,200 degrees.

Not ideal Friday afternoon.

But to show the respect to our brave firefighters, I got to do what I got to

So let's go.

I need you and Alex to confirm structure prior.

We're at 123 East Main Street.

I'll get that smoke showing on the east side. Upon your arrival, we're going to

be operating in offensive mode. I need an inch and three quarters stretch to

east side. Get down on the side.

Yeah, let's go.

Yeah,

I can't see.

I can't see anything.

Back it up! Back it up! Back it up!

Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it

up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up!

Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up!

Back

it

up! So what we'll do now is we'll bag back out, we'll reset it, we'll close

doors, and you'll get the real effect.

Damn. Fun?

I don't know if fun is the word I would, you know, use, but I literally lost

you. You were like a rabbit. Go in there.

The next one will be fun because with all the doors closed, you'll see the

really build up, and now you're going to feel the heat for sure on this next

one. It'll be good. It'll be good, though.

It's short.

Yeah, you're not in there for long.

That was short, but it was long to me.

Main thing I was worried about is that this is going to explode in my face.

Because it's hot.

You ready for round two?

Need some more rehab?

No, let's do it.

If it explodes, we'll put you out. We got water.

You're at the right place.

Time to plug in. Time to plug in.

You can't explain it. You can't see it on camera. The only thing that you can

follow is the stick hose that's hard as rock, heavy as shit.

And I exercise. I don't consider myself weak. But man, when you're crawling, you

can't see. There's 800 degrees.

Your instincts are, I want to get up and I want to get it over with. You can't.

Because as soon as you raise yourself a little bit up, you're like, cook, pick

it.

Holy.

I just got reports that they got water on the fire, so they've made an entry on

the A side, advanced down this hallway.

They're in the fire room currently working on fire suppression.

It's hot. It's fun. You know, this is what we train for. This is what we live

for. This is why we...

We picked this job while we applied and fought for this job in the first place.

And so it's always a really exciting feeling. And you try to suppress that

you know, being professional and having a job to do. But it's fun, man. We love

this stuff. We wouldn't rather be doing anything else in the world.

How do you feel?

I can think of better places to hang out.

It gets a little warm.

Yeah.

So we have to think about that. There could be somebody in here without this

gear on.

That's why we have to hurry up.

Are we getting up? Yep.

It's still gonna be hot.

For them, it's like walking the park.

For me, I'm gonna be sore like... tomorrow.

I'm gonna be in so much pain. It's a good pain, but you think that those guys

are just chilling on the bed, doing some push -ups at the fire station, throwing

down the pipe thingy.

No.

Damn. I don't know how you survive 30 seconds in that bitch.

And just let this hang.

Dang. So what happened to that? I lost James about halfway through.

Because you can't see anything.

This is your lifeline. So when something goes bad, we know that this hose is

going to lead us back outside.

Okay. But sometimes we have to go in without our lifeline.

If we pull up and they say there's people inside, we're not going to grab a

hose. We're just going to run in and go search and find those people in zero

visibility. But you have to keep moving.

Fire doubles in size every 60 seconds.

So if we're slow getting to the fire, by the time we get there, it could be

three times as big.

So we don't have time to stop and mess around. We have to haul butt to get to

that fire to put it out.

But overall, good job.

Thank you. You didn't get burned, right?

That's a win.

Thanks to you guys. That's a win.

It's been a couple hours. I feel like a 14 -hour shift.

My back is killing me.

It's heavy, too.

Yeah, they're definitely underappreciated.

Thank you so much.

Taser was scary.

This is scarier. Doesn't hurt like Taser, but it's scarier.

It paralyzes you too.

Like, man, if you want to face some serious shit, if you want to be a hero,

you want to be a badass, be a man like these guys.

Damn.

I'm Pavel.

Be a man, man.

Shake yourself before you wreck yourself.

Seriously.

First of all, thank you for everything today.

Thank you for coming out. I'm surprised I didn't poop myself.

It's a positive thing. I feel definitely more manly after today.

You are manly. I feel courageous. You are manly. It's at the end of the day, I

feel like it's a good day. We went on a call, had a ride along.

Insane. What you did today was not too many people, one, get to experience

And you went from zero to a hundred.

in day one.

And our recruits build up to that.

I want to show the world how important and amazing, absolutely amazing it is

what you guys do.

Younger generation, get your shit together.

Get out of your comfort zone.

If you want to be courageous, if you want to be a hero, if you want to have a

meaning, if you want to have a brotherhood, if you want to be cool,

place to be. I'm sorry for my French.

You know, I'm international.

We don't see ourselves as heroes like kind of some people depict us, but we

honestly just think it's doing our job.

I thank you for coming out and kind of experience a little bit of what we get

do through on a daily basis. It was a day. It was a day. Yeah.

Hey, thank you for coming out today. We enjoyed it. Thank you for putting me

through all this.

Hell of a day.

Yeah. You know what?

If it's not going to pan out with my career, man, I'm here. Yeah.

I'm here. You're welcome.

How cool is that?

How f***ing cool is this?

Massive shit.

How cool it is.

I really am in love with this.

Shiny. Big.

Scary. And masculine.

Masculine!