I consider myself to be in great shape. I'm more of an endurance guy over speed or strength personally though.

I also know a lot of fireman who can't even run 9 minute miles who do their job just fine.

This post was edited by nickerbocker57 on Jan 18 2013 04:27am

but are they the ones that actually go into the buildings?? Not disputing your analysis j/w cuz i have no idea. Also I have seen firemen out of shape as well but im pretty sure they werent the guys going into buildings, I'm guessing they like drove the firetruck and manned the fire hoses?? lol.

Yeah, guys that are in the shit. I mean obviously they aren't 300lb fat fucks, i would group them more along the lines of like a lazy military member. Just good enough P/T to not be kicked out. I give full credit to anyone who does the job, but its not as crazy as ole boy tries to make it out to be.

This.
What death just said, I'd be impressed if a normal person like most of us on the forums could do it.
My best mates dad is a fireman, but he's so high up now (he retires @50 in a few years) he only goes to big fires to supervise/whatever he does there + office stuff.
He was a RMC before he was a fireman so you could imagine what his edurance etc was like.

Maybe things are different around really big ass cities like New York and such, but I have a lot of these guys at base, and i'm pretty sure most of HNF could keep up with them if they knew what they were doing. Although our conversation isn't knowledge based, its physical based.

Nicker, I have not once seen a fat out of shape firefighter do that. Yes they are in the fire, but no they don't carry the people down 20 floors, they "leave that excitement for the young guys"

Not saying that it's a godly task, but I am saying that I doubt balla could do it

Every time you speak of it though you make it sound like its some ridiculously crazy hard job that only a few people in the world can do. Possible im just getting the wrong vibe though, hell idk.

Well physically being able to carry that shit etc and carry people out, but I'm thinking more keeping calm through 0 visibility etc...

Well obviously to that extent not everyone can do it, i wasn't talking a mental stand point though.

But you can't just say... Physically, I could go through a burning building with loads of gear and get people out. Mentally, I don't know if I could.
It's either you could or couldn't do what he just said. Atleast that's the way I look at it.

To me that's like saying oh yeah I could easily sit this test... I just won't pass 'cause I don't know how.

Bad example but hey, you can or you can't and I doubt the majority of the egos here in HnF could.