VIDEO: Firefighter Nicholas Boule knows a shift can change in an instant. And earlier this week it did, he recalled Saturday from the Folsom Fire Department.
“This is a career call,” Boule said. “You don’t know when the tones are going to go off and what you’re going to get called for.”
LiveCopter 3 was overhead with exclusive images as Boule and his team rushed to help a teenager Monday, stuck and clinging to a submerged tree in the cold and fast-moving water of the Cosumnes River. Boule and his team had only just returned to Folsom Fire Station 35 after working a grassfire call when they received word of a water rescue in Rancho Murietta.
During the roughly 20-minute drive over, he said, they researched conditions and strategized on how to best reach the stranded individual, knowing how quickly they’d need to react once they arrived.