16 people including City officials got first hand experience at battle challenges firefighters often face. These included putting out fire, searching a smoke filled building looking for people needing to be saved.
“Show to navigate a room that’s so smoke-filled that you can’t even see your hand right in front of your face,” said Director of innovation special projects Dylan Rivera. The also showed CPR of an infant as well as my favorite the jaws of life to rip apart a car to save a life.
C.F.D. uses this as a way to show people how hard their job can be.
“Personal stories in the experience that we’ve had, it’s good for us to be able to share that an open peoples eyes the amount of times that we talk and people have no clue what each individual event is and how it affects us,” said Jack Thompson, president of the Chattanooga Fire Fighters Association.