Thursday 12/7/23 - Retired Firefighter Commissioner Reveals How To Become a Firefighter Today
The Dog Walk
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) Intro (0:58) How he started (2:56) Firefighter strike (7:16) Becoming a firefighter (19:50) Busier fire houses (27:48) Firehouse positions (30:35) Time off (35:31) EMS runs (38:22) Calculated risks (40:42) Flashovers & rollovers (46:16) Close calls? (49:55) 9/11 (55:10) Other positions (59:17) Toughest part about job? (1:10:13) Outro Mark Nielsen from the Chicago Fire Department joins the show to talk about his career as a firefighter. We get into how he started in this field, what it takes to become a firefighter, the craziest things he's seen on the job, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dog Walk Listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:06.0 | Prime Members can listen to ad free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:09.0 | All right, Bam Bang, today is Thursday. |
| 0:11.0 | It is December 7th. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Dog Walk presented by |
| 0:13.6 | Barcelona Sports in studio guests today. I'm joined by Chicago Fire Department |
| 0:18.6 | former Deputy Fire Commissioner of Operations Mark Nielsen. Mark welcome to show. Thanks for coming in. |
| 0:24.0 | Good morning. Yeah I a long time parent of the neighborhood. Yes. |
| 0:29.0 | Probably my whole life right. So it's it's fun to do an interview here. Obviously I just knowing him my whole life is the he's the fire guy. |
| 0:36.0 | He's the fireman. So and I like you're like when people think when they pull a poster like a poster child of like a Chicago fireman I think you kind of fit the bill right? |
| 0:45.0 | I was I was if you say so Eddie. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah I was listen I was walking through here with you and one of the guys |
| 0:52.0 | pull me out and they're like oh he's with you know |
| 0:52.6 | who is that who is that guy and they're like oh he's you know old Chicago fire |
| 0:56.6 | him is like oh I love the look of him he's he looks exactly what I would have |
| 1:00.4 | fiction so great to have you and I'm excited to chop it in, talk some fire, talk about what you're up to now. |
| 1:07.8 | So when did you get on the job? |
| 1:09.8 | What's, how did it all start? |
| 1:11.6 | Did you always want to be a fireman? |
| 1:13.1 | Well, I tell people all the time, it started with the show |
| 1:15.5 | called Emergency One. |
| 1:17.2 | I don't know if you ever heard the show or it was basically, |
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