You guys seriously use the Batman Arkham City loading screen music I love it 🤣

I did the 75 foot! I was so nervous for over a week… I just stepped up and did it, one step at a time. The last section is always the hardest because you can see through the rungs easier. I just focused on the rungs, sang a song and kept going! Once it’s over you feel so accomplished plus adrenaline! Congrats!

Congrats probies! I remember doing this years ago to pass the academy. Not an easy task at all!

What a thrill.

we did ladder ops training last night. my ladder truck's aerial is only 75ft. i was pretty dang nervous lol. but hey i did it, one step at a time, take deep breaths, dont look down lol and only hookup once u reach the top. good times! FD for life

"YOU MUST CLIMB TO THE TOP" me: Nah im gooooood😨😨

That's where if say peace out

This is why I became a fire engineer instead of a fighter

if not strapped in....you'll know..hahaha

I remember when I had to do this.. man those were the good old days

What a thrill...

key to passing: take a pee at the top over the edge.

Its not the greatest feeling the first time you climb an aerial but you get over it quickly once you realize the end of the stick is the last safe (for the most part) point before entry.

The people thinking this is easy don't understand what it's like to be at the tip of a 100ft Fishing Pole in the wind..... Mountains don't move. lol. Towers don't even sway much... This is portable, ultra light weight and flexible. FISHING POLE. you're also climbing this fishing pole with 80 Pounds of gear (SCBA/etc) offsetting your balance Backwards while having to holding on wearing essentially oven mits & slippery rubber boots.... usually everything is soaking wet wild waterworks slidepark...… Having a complete face mask on does NOT help visibility at all and you can't really hear anything or anyone while you're up there. if there's smoke, you can't see anything at all. Nevermind the heat. Also, can you carry someone 200+ pounds unconcious back down that ladder under those circumstances with the entire world watching with their iphones recording, flames blazing around waiting for you to screw up on? Good Luck ya'll! So easy! I always tell people, if you think it's so great, feel free to sign up and come join us... Nothing stopping you, we always need another good Firefighter!

My dad is a firefighter and he has sent me many videos of him at the top.

Awesome!

Reminds me of "Truck Ops" class in the *80's in Fairbanks, Alaska. Using University of Fairbanks 135 foot stick in class , climbing to the top, hooked in and staring at my boots, the lower ladder, operator and the ground. It made for an amazing photo (my view)..

Nice editing with the guy nearly falling ;)

This was so much fun

How long is that fire academy??? Could do a video about the all training course.

Glad to see these brave souls having the best modern equipment avalable. The old guys before you face a slew of health issues from being up and breathing decades of toxins.

Awesome.

damn i want to become a firefighter but heights terrified me. oh well i gotta be brave.

Been there and done that. Much respect to the new class. 😎

Looks like fun to me!

Wrong music, needs more Snake Eater

no fkn way, much respect to fire fighters. #respect

As a volunteer I need to do this in a few weeks for truck cert. Just watching this short clip, I was sweating and getting worried 😟. God bless our Firefighters!!

One day, they'll look at this video and chuckle that climbing an aerial was once a "big deal" and they were actually on belay in this evelution. Good job!

gotta love truck work!

respect

@Brandon Rogers If you would take note of the blue life line he has on him you would see that he has a safety line on him. Just because you didn't do it when you climbed the aerial doesn't mean they didn't.

Your on belay, it can't get any easier

Just plain crazy

*I give my life, not for honor, but for you intensifies*

if you have the aerial fully out, how much weight can it carry on top for example you got one firefighter on top and a second person to be rescued off a window?

I wish i had an incline like that when i did it. Mine was straight vertical.

What up with the Batman Arkham City theme for the background music? •~•

Stick Max Que. Cant wait to find out how that feels

I think it’s crazy they don’t put a harnes on to keep them from falling bc it’s their first time and if they fall they are dead

ill be doing this soon, and im afraid of heights any advise while im climbing?

You know, it would be better with Snake Eater song on the background

The trainee only latches in at the top? The video shows him lose his grip, what stops him for falling back down?

wow!!

Been way hire in a bucket too climb into a 250 sign out of a bucket, had to unhook to climb into the sign then rehook.

The SCBAs make it hard, mad constrictive.

Do you get extra credit for leaning back when you get to the top?

Someday i'll climb mine. 100' Seagrave. Steel ladder is very stable I hear compared to aluminum. We'll see.

My old aerial shook all the time windy or not

Love it. The music is great I felt like I was watching Lawrence of Arabia.

I went up our 75 last week, the height didn't bother me at all but fuck were my legs feeling it.

Shit! I'd be lucky to get to 18'.

dont look down!

OMG!

In my city there was a 52M ladder where you had to climb to the top this ladder is pretty basic

I want to volunteer but I am "Afraid of heights" Well I never been high up before so I wouldn't know and I'm not afraid but it's my body and mind that mess with me I would like to not be afraid of heights

Fuck that so much. My department only has a 26’ ladder truck and that’s pushing my comfort zone

i would never climb 109 ft. im ok with going at 50 maby 60

Then it would be a dramatic 109ft aerial fall lol

Worst thing is when you get a major leg cramp 5 feet from the top.

That scared me when he slipped

Geee....that's some dramatic music for climbing a freaking ladder. lol.

Lord I have to do this tomorrow.

the song is from batman arkham city

that ladder isnt 109 ft

Yeah it was a low angle and yeah it they were strapped into a Bealy the whole time but who fucking cares would you rather then climb it freehand with nothing and if this was a structural fire 108 feet and shit it's when u have to step off that ladder into that window I don't know about you but I'd feel a lot safer on that ladder then I would inside a burning building with the risk of roof collapse 108 feet up

Thats a long ways up lol

My flabby gut and 20 years of smoking would have me dead 1/3 of the way up that climb

ㅎㅎ ㅎㅎ굿 wow good

I build power lines. Big transmission lines and yes we are top of the class, but these people kick ass. I lift heavy stuff all day. I know how hard this is as I climb a lot also.

Hey im German and in Germany we have a basket on the top of the ladder so you Can go higher and its easyer to climb it up why there is in america no laddertruck with a basket? Sorry for my bad English :D cool Video!

What if you fell

*ploop*

i climbed it when i was a JR.cadet

at least not the three section

It's not that bad I thought it would be a lot worse

This is only difficult for people who are afraid of heights.....guys are exaggerating the amount if weight carried in this video. The aerial ladder is solid and steady and easy to climb. You're not climbing Mt Everest here

What if the hydraulic at the base of the ladder fails?

enclose it and hook up after 10'

No hard to do, but a great way to test a person's confidence and ability to deal with heights....NYC used to use scaling ladders in it's academy and you would have to climb to the top of the aerial and then step off onto a scaling ladder hanging from the top of the training tower

Iooks like fun

2:27 That scared me

Is that it??????? Check Fred dibnah out

Nothing would happen.... There's check valves in the cylinders and only structural failure would cause the ladder to fall...

we no and I'm mine who is one

This video is overly dramatic..

back in the day when i was a volunteer i use to pull out the 75 foot ladder truck set it up and climb up and down 2 or 3 times just for exercise. Kept my legs in shape. and yes I did this with no one around. (not a good idea)

I'm just afraid this thing could flip over.. 😓

how dramatic

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Why all this drama?

The aerial is cool. The whole drama of climbing it on top rope belay....really not that exciting, especially the fake slip... come on guys there's rope access people who watch this too...

WTF

Easy, try climbing 115' Skyhooks everyday for work!

lol belay and low angle

i have done it im not scared of nothing

its a ladder , you climb it , jeez

that's so easy anybody can do it

What a thrill...

What a thrill...