Firefighters risk their lives to save others, but what happens if a fellow firefighter needs saving?
Fire departments from Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan are spending St. Patrick's Day weekend learning life-saving techniques.
"Rapid intervention is teaching firefighters to rescue our own," said Asst. Chief Rick Sluder of the Wauseon Fire Department.
The vacant home in Wauseon the firefighters are using is set to be torn down on Tuesday. So Saturday, fire crews used it for training.
"This is a controlled environment, but the only thing that would hamper it is the smoke," said Brandon Rosebrock of the Wauseon Fire Dept.
In one exercise, Rosebrock played the "down firefighter." His team had to drag him across the floor, through a hole in the wall then, "...the only way to get me out was through the hole in the floor," Rosebrock said.
Other exercises included propelling down the side of a home when there is no other way out, carrying a victim up a flight of stairs and using a fire hose to pull an injured firefighter to safety.
On Sunday, the firefighters will do the same exercises but the house will be filled with fake smoke.
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