Quote Originally Posted by JoeVanGeaux View Post
Yup, I do understand that... first hand. I had much formal training in industrial firefighting as part of a fire team and later as emergency/hazmat responder. I also had the unique, hair-raising (and a tiny bit of singeing) experience of having directly participated in fighting a few industrial (refinery) fires and emergencies.

The actual exercise shown in the video is to build confidence and learn techniques when you find yourself on the wrong side of a narrow obstacle when trying to escape... so yeah, my comment was a joke, of course.

Full disclosure: I never did have to do the exercise in the video, but I do have have some spelunking tales that required similar physical/mental effort ... but without any fires to bolster determination!
Growing up working in the blacksmith shop I found myself on the Local VFD whether I liked it or not since the Blacksmith was also the fire chief. The worst thing we ever had were brush fires and the occasional Hay barn spontaneously combusting because the green horn farmer stacked his bales too green and too tight. There was this 1 fire that has stuck for all these years though. I believe we called it the Peaster fire of 68 Departments from 17 to 20 precincts in 4 counties were involved in that one even several units from as far away as Ft.Worth Although we found that city fire fighters were more in the way than they were help. Their units were not made for anything but hydrant work in there city to begin with I mean who brings a 100ft ladder truck to a brush fire that doesn't even hold 500 gallons of water. and can't even draw water from a pond? Then there was their gear weighted down with everything that might be required to fight a fire in a high rise apartment but not a single shovel among them.