VIDEO: 3NEWS gave a Corpus Christi firefighter a GoPro camera to wear as he climbed up the water tower at the city's O.N. Stevens Water Treatment Plant in Calallen. He was taking part in a high-angle rescue training exercise. Training that could end up saving lives.
Firefighter Erik Saxvik explained how the first part of the training had gotten up to that point.
"It's just a lot of practice, you know we're always going to have hiccups in the beginning, but you learn from those hiccups and you move on, and you get better," Saxvik said.
It's not every day that you interview firefighters like Saxvik up on a water tower. The training scenario was that someone had climbed the tower and couldn't get down.
Captain Eric Macleod works out of Corpus Christi Fire Station #3. His crews and those from Corpus Christi Fire Station #4 do all of the high-angle rope rescues in the city.