The firefighters wore full gear, including their breathing systems, and carried a hose as they waited outside the front door to enter an abandoned house and put out a fire.
Brian Cox wore a black overcoat and carried a camera as he approached the front door to record video of the firefighters extinguishing the fire. Black smoke poured through the doorway above Cox as he filmed the footage Friday morning.
"It's wonderful, exhilarating, really fun," he said of getting close to the fire.
RFD hopes middle school students will feel the same thing when they watch the video Cox, a Richmond native who owns Sound and Silence Films, produces with a week's worth of footage shot of firefighters involved in a variety of tasks.