VIDEO: The La Crosse Fire Department has welcomed five new firefighters. However, before responding to calls, the new recruits are required to go through four weeks of training. For Scott DeLong, the summer training is not his first experience as a firefighter with the La Crosse Fire Department. "Me and another guy actually started in April," DeLong said. That other guy is Dominick Mellick. Although both men had one week of training after joining the department, they now join three other new firefighters for the training academy. "We had a taste of it, and now everything is starting to come together," Mellick said. "It's actually really fun. It makes us more confident in our job."