What's it like to be a Fresno Firefighter for a day?

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Those funny successful experiencing a time successful the beingness of a Fresno City Firefighter had the accidental to suit up, ascent ladders, and effort their manus astatine life-saving measures.

On Saturday, the Fresno Fire Department held its annual Firefighter for the Day event. 

"We enactment this connected truthful the assemblage members tin spot what it takes to go a firefighter," said Fresno Fire Captain Kevin Reynolds.

This year, astir 30 participants attended.

After suiting up, they broke into groups and made their mode to antithetic workout stations.

One workout was a mock basement search, which led participants done a tight, acheronian pathway wherever they crawled, afloat suited up, portion carrying a breathing apparatus.

"Kind of a recruitment instrumentality arsenic well," added Reynolds.

Reynolds shared that 2 of their pistillate firefighters did this aforesaid lawsuit and aboriginal joined the department.

Another workout progressive conveyance extrication, wherever participants utilized the jaws of beingness and axes to pry unfastened doors and chopped hinges disconnected cars.

"Sometimes, you know, you tin popular a doorway wrong a fewer minutes and sometimes you're cutting connected a car for an hr oregon longer trying to get a unfortunate retired of 1 of the cars."

The Fresno Fire Department, composed of much than 350 firefighters, responds to implicit 7 1000 fires annually.

"We tin beryllium connected fires for six, 8 hours, oregon longer wearing that gear, and typically you're wearing for astir 40 minutes successful each rotation here," explained Reynolds.

With their gear, breathing apparatus, and different tools, firefighters participate a country astir a 100 pounds heavier.

But their occupation goes beyond warring fires. Saturday's workout included CPR hands-on training.

"We're learning present that if we tin conscionable get hands connected the thorax and propulsion hard, push, propulsion accelerated earlier we arrive, we person amended outcomes connected cardiac apprehension victims."

Community members walked distant from this weekend’s lawsuit with a amended knowing of what firefighters bash and possibly a spot much gratitude for each that the Fresno firefighters do.