Firefighters are true heroes in every sense of the word but have you ever wondered why they are willing to risk everything to save us in an emergency or what the challenges they face on a daily basis are like? Check out this video of Real Men
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00:10 It's the typical story growing up as a kid, seeing the trucks going up and
00:20 down the street.
00:21 And it was my dream and became a passion.
00:25 And it's not just a career, it's my life.
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00:36 >> We're at the Santa Fe Springs Regional Training Center.
00:38 Firefighters can come in and hone their skills on ventilation,
00:42 forcible entry, vehicle extrication.
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00:48 >> They design vehicles for the consumer.
00:51 They don't design it for the firefighter.
00:52 >> Say there's not enough room and we need to remove the door completely.
00:56 We can.
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01:05 >> Got a lot of thoughts going through your mind that first time.
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01:27 >> Attacking a car in general is just a way a lot.
01:30 The parts that are involved in making them nowadays are complicated.
01:35 And the tools that are required to enforce them are way above the capacity that a human being has.
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01:51 >> Now look at all the access we have.
02:03 >> With practice and with experience, your nerves kind of calm down and
02:08 you know what needs to be done.
02:09 And as part of a team, everybody gets in there and gets the job done.
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02:16 >> Depending on how long the fire's been burning, what it's presenting from the outside,
02:19 it kind of tells us what we're gonna be able to do.
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02:24 And then once we get up here and we look and then we can start seeing,
02:26 you see fire coming through the roof in a certain area,
02:29 you have to really start weighing out how long the fire's been burning,
02:32 how much roof has been compromised.
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02:39 >> We have fire underneath, they're venting out the heat.
02:42 [MUSIC]
02:46 >> Ventilation's kind of a bread and butter tactic of what a truck company does on a fire situation.
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02:56 >> We're problem solvers.
02:57 Most of the time we're gonna create the problem.
02:59 We're there to fix the problem, as big or as small as it may be.
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03:05 >> Fortunately, bad things happen to good people.
03:07 As first responders, we're the first ones to roll up on that.
03:10 >> Let's talk a little bit about fire behavior and a little bit about flash over.
03:14 Flash over is rapid fire spread between the growth phase of fire and
03:18 the fully developed phase.
03:19 It's where all the contents of the room are on fire at once.
03:23 So if you're in here and it's fully involved, there's no way you're gonna survive.
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03:56 >> You bond with these guys, they're your second family.
03:59 And around the station, it's a great time.
04:01 And then when the bell goes off, everybody's working.
04:04 So we don't have to turn it on, turn it off.
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04:16 >> That was just when I think it's time to back out, he says, hold on, not just yet.
04:20 So based on experience, that makes him a man I wanna follow, for sure.
04:25 >> I would hope I'm a real man, but
04:27 you can ask the rest of the other guys out here or not.
04:30 We're only defined on what we do in life.
04:34 My job is I'm a firefighter, but I'm also a husband and a father.
04:39 So hopefully those kinda make me a real man.
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