Fire, fuel, and a race against the clock.In 2008, a B-2 Spirit crashed on takeoff at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. The pilots survived because they ejected—but what if they hadn’t been able to? What actually happens when an Air Force aircraft goes down on a runway? Who rescues the crew? And how do they train for a scenario that could go wrong in a dozen different ways?I started asking those questions after experiencing an in-flight emergency myself and seeing fire trucks chasing our aircraft down the runway. That led me to Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas, where the 312th Training Squadron trains the DoD’s firefighters at the Louis F. Garland Fire Academy—the largest and most advanced fire academy in the world.In this video, I dive into:🔥 How Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) really works🔥 How DoD firefighters train on propane fires, aircraft burns, and live-structure scenarios🔥 Why turnout gear costs $20,000 and weighs as much as some gym PRs🔥 How foam, water, hose pressure, and hydraulic ventilation actually put out fires🔥 What happens when firefighters have to cut into a crashed plane to save a crew🔥 Why firefighting is as much empathy as it is muscleFrom carrying 175-lb rescue dummies… to learning how to vent an aircraft with a hose line… to seeing how crews approach a burning fighter jet at a 45-degree angle—this is a side of military aviation most people never get to see.Huge thank you to the men and women at the 312th Training Squadron and Goodfellow AFB for letting me behind the curtain. Any mistakes in this video are mine alone.