Rajesh Koothrappali
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I think it involved carrying a backpack with a certain amount of weight in it.
It's basically to ensure you have a basic level of fitness and you're not going to keel over in the middle of responding to a fire or working on the firegrounds.
There's not a serious amount of physical exertion in the RFS (specialists such as RAFT crews excepted). There's no running/rushing/panicking/etc when on foot and a lot of the time you're actually driving around while on the back of the truck. There's a big difference between being urgent and rushing. But it does get hot and it's definitely tiring during major fire events.
It's basically to ensure you have a basic level of fitness and you're not going to keel over in the middle of responding to a fire or working on the firegrounds.
There's not a serious amount of physical exertion in the RFS (specialists such as RAFT crews excepted). There's no running/rushing/panicking/etc when on foot and a lot of the time you're actually driving around while on the back of the truck. There's a big difference between being urgent and rushing. But it does get hot and it's definitely tiring during major fire events.