I guess every department can have differing quals required.
I"d say that you have a worse chance of being in a big "forest fire" than we do, we almost always have a way out pretty quick here.
I"m WAY impressed with the wildland fighters from the Forest Service.
Even though I TRY to stay/get in shape all the time for the worst case scenario plus it helps conserve air on SCBA tanks in structure fires, I know that MAYBE 10% of our department could meet that marker.
I"m not actually sure I could, but then again I have not put on any kind of backpack for training now in a couple of years so no real clue.
Curiously, what do you do for exercise to stay up? Our manuals suggest 1 hour a day of cardio/weights. And of course I don't know of any of our guys that burn an hour, though I"m typically at 30-60 or so minutes almost every day at a minimum.
