Sesame Street: Firefighters in Training

[SIREN WAILING] NICOLE: This is my friend Joe. He's learning to be a fireman. This is me, Nicole. All these buildings are part of the New York City Fireman's Training School. People don't live in these buildings. They're only for firemen to practice in. Here's Joe. Joe's practicing on building number one. He's learning how to climb a high ladder so that some day he can go up into a real burning building. The teacher makes him stomp the floor to be sure it's safe to walk on. TEACHER: Ease your body over. Nice and lightly. NICOLE: Firemen work together. One man is lowering Joe off the top of a building on a rope. JOE: Down. Down. TEACHER: Let me hear you. JOE: Down! Down. Down. Down. Down. Down. Down. TEACHER: Shoulder to shoulder with him, Joe. JOE: All right. Down. Down. Hold! Stop. NICOLE: He stops to rescue someone out of a second-story window. JOE: [INAUDIBLE] NICOLE: If you were sitting on your window sill, you would put your arms around his neck and put your legs around him and ride down. JOE: Let's go! Down. Down. Down. Down. OK. Moving down. [FIRE TRUCK REVVING] NICOLE: Hook and ladder trucks are hard to drive. This road is very windy. It's that way on purpose so the driver can practice steering around curves. FIREMAN: Work it out. Work it out. [INAUDIBLE] NICOLE: Getting water to the fire means getting hoses off the truck quickly, then getting them hooked up to the fire hydrant. TEACHER: No kinks when you start water, all right? NICOLE: It is importat to work very fast. Here comes Joe with the hose nozzle. JOE: Start water! NICOLE: The water comes out so hard that it takes three guys to hold it and keep it steady. Finally, after they've learned how to use the hose, the truck, the ladder, and everything, the teacher lights a real fire. TEACHER: Everybody ready? NICOLE: This is very dangerous unless you know what you're doing. TEACHER: That's it! NICOLE: Congratulations. JOE: Thank you. Thank you. NICOLE: Maybe I'd like to be a fireman someday.