(upbeat music)
Welcome
to the Sixth Annual
Denis Leary FDNY Firefighter Challenge.
Representing team Rach this year,
celebrity trainer, Bob Harper.
I'm going in prepared for anything.
Chef Josh Capon.
Listen, I'm just excited to put on the firefighter gear
and get into it.
And from Conagra Brands, Lanie Friedman.
Conagra Brands is excited to support
the Denis Leary Firefighters Foundation,
because it's important to support first responders.
I mean for us,
it's amazing that we're able to use this facility,
bring people in to raise money and send money
to fire departments across the country.
How about Rachael, who, from the beginning, I said,
all you have to do is just show up,
and we'll do the stuff for the show, you cook the food,
you don't have to do anything, and she's doing it all!
And then, repelling down the side of a building.
First rotation today is car fire.
It's gonna involve them putting out a live car fire.
They will have to work as a team,
to keep the hose moving together.
To be a firefighter, it's all about teamwork.
I've gotta be able to rely on my team.
Down low, down low.
In the front, in the front seat.
The fire is really intense and I'm just so glad,
that there are people behind me that can help,
because the hose, it's really heavy.
Stay with it, stay with it!
Now we're gonna be moving over to
the 75 foot tower ladder.
That's no joke, that's pretty high.
Tower ladders are used for rescuing people.
They're also used as platforms to apply water to fires.
It is intense up there,
that bucket just keeps going up and up and up.
And when you think that you're at the highest point,
he's like, no, let's go a little farther.
We're going up, we're going all the way up.
So what we're heading over to now,
is the lowering of a member evolution.
They're gonna be lowered down from the roof
of a six story building,
to try and help someone on a lower floor,
who's trapped ahead of the fire.
So we're gonna lower this member off right now.
I, am repelling,
from a six story building.
I want it tight. Tight!
I think the scariest part about this exercise is
throwing that leg over, and the guy's saying-
Ease yourself off like you're getting into a pool.
There ain't no water under me but I'm getting in the pool.
Down, down, down, down.
Now we're gonna be heading over to
search and rescue evolution.
We are gonna be entering a building that is
technically burning,
and have to do our best to search and rescue any people,
or kids or anybody that's still alive,
that we have to get the hell out of there.
It's very stressful having the mask on.
It's very stressful being clouded out like that.
Okay, so you know I can't see, right?
Yep, that's the point.
Oh (beep).
(laughing)
Good, you can breathe?
I can breathe.
You're gonna crawl towards me, alright?
Straight ahead, alright?
Now you're gonna hug this right hand wall,
through the whole course, alright,
you're gonna follow the right side.
We're gonna try to get under,
alright, lay that bottle, push it.
I'm in there, I cannot see anything.
I'm trying to maneuver, they're saying-
Keep feeling with that hand in front of you.
I'm holding onto a wall that I can't see,
I don't know where I'm going.
You are done, well done.
It's pretty intense to watch him
maneuver himself, always keeping your mask on,
so you can breathe, when he got out of that thing,
you could tell just how exhausted he really was.
(Bob breathing heavily)
Last rotation of the day today,
we're going to be simulating a person,
who is trapped underneath a subway car.
They're going to have to go in,
lift the train using hydraulic tools and remove the victim.
So Bob and I get down there, I jack up the car
the same way you do with a car with a flat tire.
You can stop pumping, the train's up.
Alright, now start pulling on the victim.
Got you, buddy, go!
There you go.
I just lifted a subway car.
You just lifted 80,000 pounds.
What I'm learning today is that
firefighters don't just put out fires.
There is nothing that they can't do.
Tonight for dinner we have
Rachael's special chicken rigatoni pasta,
a classic Italian American salad we have
traditional tomato and basil skewers with a little pesto.
We have a beautiful charcuterie board.
And then tonight for the finale,
we have made them
a special Italian wedding cookie, brownie,
with the colors of the firehouse!
Dinner is phenomenal,
it's always great whenever we have food
that Rachael provides, it's just so much fun,
great experience for everybody.
We should just give a giant round of applause to FDNY.
(audience cheering and applauding)
Just great!