Firefighting is not an easy job, and today we experienced some of the intense training Pasco Fire Department leaders put their new recruits through.
A group of three firefighters burst into a burning building, but the smoke was just a simulation, and the victims just dummies. All this was part of a ten-week training academy to prepare new recruits for real fires.
Today they had to crawl through dark rooms searching for people to save without a water source.
"It's a real butt-kicker,” said Troy Hesse, recruit for the Pasco Fire Department. “They're going to challenge us, and they have. But they're doing everything they can to try to make us successful, and it's going to be good. We're going to be better firefighters when we're done with this."