VIDEO: Blackhawk Technical College has a new way for future firefighters to train. Instructors say the new equipment is keeping everyone safer, including the trainees. Robert Balsamo has been in the fire service for more than 30 years. From his perspective, things are much different now in the training process. "When I first started in the fire service, you got some real training out of it, but it wasn't real safe," Balsamo says. The Mobile Live Fire Training Unit is changing the ways they train for life-threatening situations.