The video below attempts to answer the all-important question — “Can a “fitness model” (whatever that is) pass a New York Fire Department physical fitness test?” I won’t spoil the ending for you.
A question they DON’T answer: “Can a fitness model pass the Work Capacity Test?”, aka “Pack Test”? Do you think she could?
After I watched that video on YouTube, one of the “recommended” videos was titled TFFA Girls. It turns out that TFFA stands for Tucson Firefighters Association, and the video is a preview of the organization’s 2013 calendar, the female version. They also have a male calendar. I was unable to determine if the very fit women in the video, who occasionally wear turnout pants over bikinis, are actually Tucson firefighters.
In the 80′s one of the FDNY agility test evolutions was picking up a sledge hammer and knocking a truck tire (mounted on a rim) down a waist high steel table. The test was timed and the farther down the table the candidate knocked the tire, the higher the score.
I do not think I would want this model trying to save me from a fire. And where is her mask? All firefighters have to wear them when going into a fire.
I personally worked with 2 of the girls in the TFFA video and yes, they are actually firefighters, and very good at what they do. Goolsby, not sure if you were trolling or what, but it’s a photo shoot/ publicity story, so yeah, they probably didn’t want to have her wearing a mask… Kinda defeats the purpose of the photo shoot, don’t you think? I’d personally go into a fire with any of the women from TFD. They hold their own.