A Day in the Life - Tower Engineer

Published 2022-08-12
On this episode of A Day in the Life we follow Engineer Eric Ritter for the first 24-hours of his 48-hour shift on Tower 45 in Parker, Colorado. Follow along as Engineer Ritter does a detailed apparatus check, drives his crew emergent (lights and sirens) to emergency calls, conducts training and discusses various aspects of his career.

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All Comments (21)
  • @MileHi5280
    Not sure if it's been done yet, but "A Day in the Life" of a Hazmat or Heavy Rescue driver would be epic. Thank you SMFR for always helping the community & educating people about the Fire Service.
  • @DGAF_AK87
    Best one yet, I think I speak for many when I say we would like to return to this station down the road to see how they're doing.
  • @user-ti2bi2bj6k
    20 YEARS , THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. What a fantastic driver/operator and what a good working crew.
  • @jackg9381
    It never occured to me that Fire Rescue personnel would need rappel/climbing training but that makes so much sense! The number of hats worn by fire rescue heros is so amazing. Keep up the hard work.
  • @DCFRPIO
    20 YEARS , THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
  • Best Audio I’ve heard out of all the videos you guys post love the ride alongs!
  • Great video boys look forward to seeing you all again , take care and stay safe everyone.
  • Another great video! Being a chauffeur for a department here in central PA, we run a fairly dangerous stretch of interstate, and it’s unbelievable how people react when the heat and see the fire apparatus behind them. It’s like the motorists brains turn to mush.
  • @cmcer1995
    It is always interesting watching your videos, there is so much that this job entails and every one of these require lots of training and practice to maintain efficiency. This has quickly become one of my favorite channels to watch as I always learn something new each episode. Thanks for sharing. That breakfast looked amazing as well.
  • Yall should do a day in the life of a rescue/dive firefighter, I know my job is pretty cool and I'm sure smfr is just as awesome
  • @chris_82
    8:00 that table is so cool. Using hydrants and a hose for the support. lol
  • @310to703
    this was awesome I really do like the Day in the Life series
  • Thank you south metro fire rescue for doing a video like this with a day in the life these were the videos that I was talking about that the next video after this one should be a ambulance engineer i just wanted to suggest this for the next video but great job starting new a day in the life videos just keep going with the new a day in the life videos
  • @cdmartin194
    What a fantastic driver/operator and what a good working crew
  • That Balch Springs fire was wild! I work Private ems in that city and man it was an experience!
  • This was a good video of an tower engineer keep up the awesome work 💪🏾😎