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ALIANNA KYLE:
Firefighting has always

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been a very
male-dominated profession.

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And back home at
my fire station,

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it was very
male-dominated as well.

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But I just remember thinking
like, I need to do it.

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And the pure fact that
I think I can't do it?

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That means I need to do it.

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SAM ANDERSON:
Responding to calls

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is very intense because you have
all the lights and the sirens.

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And you're whizzing and zooming
and squirreling past cars.

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RANIYAH MAJIED: My heart
drops a little bit each

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and every time because you
never know what to expect.

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It could be anything.

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RYAN THOMAS: There's
a lot of things

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that you see that
a lot of people

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will never see in their life.

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And it's a privilege to be
a part of that experience

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because a lot of other
people will never

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be able to say they
could, but we do.

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BETHANY COYNE:
These students tend

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to be the leaders
of the classes.

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They tend to be a good
support for other people

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in their class.

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And they're often
our stellar students.

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Sometimes when you're not
confident with your skills,

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you spend all your time focusing
on the skills and procedures

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and lose the bigger
perspective of what you're

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learning in nursing school.

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So often, because they get
to practice those skills all

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the time, that's not
an issue for them.

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And so they can do that.

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And they can open their
mind to other things

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and getting a better
sense of the big picture

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than the procedures
in and of itself.

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SAM ANDERSON: A lot of it is
using very comfortable language

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with them, being very
polite and courteous,

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and giving them as
much autonomy as

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possible with the
decision-making of how

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we're going to proceed forward.

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RYAN THOMAS: I think
the biggest principle

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we have is just respect,
knowing that we're

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walking into their life.

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They're not walking into ours.

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And so we have to check
all of our judgments,

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our prejudices, our expectations
at the door and just

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take whatever is
happening to be the truth

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and to be their truth.

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And whatever that might be,
we're here to help them.

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BETHANY COYNE: I find that
they bring a really unique

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perspective to the
classroom in that they

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have all these experiences that
are beyond the hospital walls,

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and have seen patients
and clients outside

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of the inpatient
hospital setting.

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And that perspective
is really valuable.

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They don't know what
they're going into.

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They have no idea
what to expect.

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Again, it's very different
than the hospital setting,

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where even in an
emergency-room setting,

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there is usually some
forewarning about what's

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coming.

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And so they have to
be pretty creative.

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They have to depend on people on
their team to have their back,

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so to speak.

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RYAN THOMAS: We operate
as a family more

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because we spend 12, 13,
sometimes 24 hours a week

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together.

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And even though we
might not be on a call,

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we're still together.

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And we're still there as a
team waiting to do something.

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And I think having that
family aspect really

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makes our teamwork
more endearing

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because we can trust each other
both on a call and off a call.

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ALIANNA KYLE: A
lot of the lessons

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I've learned so far in
regards to firefighting

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and just the different
situations, I think,

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have really contributed to how
I think through problems now,

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and give me a
different perspective.

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SAM ANDERSON: I think
nursing school would

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be a lot more intimidating.

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I definitely think coming from
the rescue squad background

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has prepared me for the skill
set, the health assessment,

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and maybe some of the
emotional part of it all.

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ANDREW BAXTER: Many
times, the letters

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that I get from people
in the community,

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and the phone calls,
and the emails, they're

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blown away by the level of
kindness and the service

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that they get.

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They don't write and
tell me that, boy,

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your fire crews did
a great job deploying

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an inch-and-three-quarter
attack line on that house fire.

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They write and say, I
can't believe the care

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that your crew took,
so I could go back

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in the house to get my
grandmother's wedding dress.

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And that's just
phenomenal, right?

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ALIANNA KYLE: I find that I
prefer doing real-life things

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and using my hands rather than
sitting in front of a textbook,

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regardless.

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So I feel like if I'd never
gotten involved in that stuff,

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I definitely think I would be
a different kind of nursing

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student.

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I might always have my nose in
the textbook, which is fine.

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And I wish I had my
nose in a textbook

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more than I actually do.

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INTERVIEWER: But you
know to use the chainsaw.

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ALIANNA KYLE: But I know
how to use a chainsaw.

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