Thanks, I stayed in for 11 years with those idgits because if I wasn't there, then no one on scene had training. Wasnt going to let the town suffer because of them. Luckily for me, they were so unqualified that if they tried to lock me in I just used training to escape. Roof collapsing and "accidentally" blocked in? Wall is just a stuck door to a FF with an axe.
Best was one structural fire, found a gun on the bed mopping up. Chief took it and was going to keep. Mentioned it to sheriff who was outside and he tried to deny it existed. Went to truck, got chief's coat off the door, gun in pocket. Sherriff now sends deputies to all their structure fires. Surprisingly, lot fewer house fires since that...

Oh, and our gear started out as the old rubber trench coats and hip boots. Took my father, brother and about 5 others to get a county ESD set up to fund us getting good Morning Pride gear (brother was a vendor for Dooley Tackaberry). The ESD is where the funds came from that the chief & secretary were embezzling.
Anyway, if you think nomex only chairs, then your experience with being in a flashover is limited to youtube videos and Google images. My coat was melted at the shoulder straps to my air pack.
I want this to be a note of caution to everyone. Praise the professional, not the profession. It's not the job that makes someone a hero, it's how they DO their job. On a bell curve, my old dept is near the bottom; th ose in the picture, in the middle; HEROS ... are usually only called so... posthumously. Ain't that a damned shame.

Chief was pump operator, me and 3 others responded, dept had 17 total members of which 4 regularly responded. My brother lives 50 miles away and only visited our parents on weekends, still made more calls than half the dept. This is a rural dept in central Texas.
As for experience, I've been out of firefighting for 10 years and still have more training than all of them combined. One of the Captains literally said on scene of a structure fire "see, this is what we need, more real world experience, we don't need to go to no training." To which I asked if he would volunteer his house to burn next; turned to the crowd on the street 20 ft away and told him to ask one of those people to die in a house fire so he could learn what nozzle pattern to use.

"... proven to be useless?"... Pesado... I hope you're not referring to the 20 ft wide test sections that people are walking around. The actual wall would be a bit more continuous.

What are your qualifications to direct this movie?
I wrote, directed, produced, edited, co wrote the entire score for and personally coached 31 actors / actresses / stunt persons / animals / cyborgs in a student film that won 12 awards and grossed 300 times what it costs to make while entirely sustainable on wasted and employed 1,200 locals whom I'm now sponsoring for citizenship.
Sorry, we need to hire a female who has a lawyer.

I WANT THE NUTH! YOU CANT HANDLE THE NUTH!

Mosquitoes...

The flaw in your "future" theory is this was built "a long time ago..". But I agree, fusion power, oxygen replenishment, slave labor, and it can travel to planets to resupply food, recycle water... payroll is biggest cost and you sell food to troops..

Can I customize the sound, want 10,000 screaming monkeys or B-29 stratobomber on takeoff. Horn is quad 50 cal machine gun.

Typical millenial... 60K per year in free money and assume you can't ALSO have a job.

Alexis Bledel "Rory" from Gilmore Girls is Hispanic... blue eyes no less from half Mexican - half Argentine

Best part, her family will still like you and hate her since they saw it with their own eyes. None defending her saying "my sister is not a cheater, he's probably the one." ... of course... now it's a meme and worldwide that you knew beforehand. But still brilliant.

Speaking on behalf of those with a rare medical allergy to hemp... I fully support non recreational hemo development. If it made good paper and bad highs, I'd support federal funding. Just. . Not around me, I break out in hives.

Indeed, a well laid set of bricks.

HACK THE PLANET!!