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(digital alarm ringing)

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(birds chirping)

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- You don't know what you're
gonna get every single day.

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It could be some completely boring day,

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or it could be one of the most
exciting days of your life.

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And then also you get to help anyone.

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On their worst day we
get to help them out.

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- [Man Over Radio] Good
morning, Scott Fire Department,

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time now is 0730.

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Time for roll call in 15.

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Please stand by for the
testing of the (mumbles).

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- Every morning we have to be
ready, prepared in roll call,

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standing in formation.

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We start off by giving passalongs,
so everything is briefed

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on what the past shift
before did the past two days.

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Then after that we all
check out our trucks,

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make sure that they're good in service,

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all the equipment is there.

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All of that's really crucial
for our shift coming on.

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(motor rumbling)

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And then after that it's
just basically training.

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(indistinct radio transmission)

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- [Damon] So most of our training

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consists of live fire burns.

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We'll follow dummies to work
on our ventilation skills,

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anything fire-related,
and then we can transition

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from that into like a medical call,

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we're all EMR certified, so as EMT's,

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so we'll work on that,
keep those certs up,

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and then we'll also do
some aircraft stuff,

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egress of pilots, and
actual familiarization

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of the aircraft.

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(indistinct conversation)

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(indistinct radio transmission)

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- Watch his head.

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(digital alarm ringing)

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- [Damon] After three o'clock
we normally rotate into a PT.

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We have to do PT so we can
always be ready to do our job,

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whether it's responding to
just a normal smell of gas,

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or a fire alarm activation,
or a full-blown fire.

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We have to be physically
fit to do our job.

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The hardest part of our job's probably

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being away from family,
being away from my wife.

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Pretty much half the year we're at work

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while they're at home.

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- Oh, there we go.

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This is fun.

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- [Damon] Around 4:30, five o'clock,

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we go into our down time,

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just hang out, watch movies.

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I mean, anything that
you would think you'd do

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at your house for fun with your friends,

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is pretty much what we're doing here.

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- [Claudia] They dynamic
of us all working together

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for 48 hours is something different

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than I think any other job I've ever had,

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because you are living together.

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I mean, you know everything
that the person next to you

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is up to, and how they go
about their day and stuff.

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But yeah, it pretty much is like family.