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not in FDNY. I am told it is not difficult by some and very difficult by others. Of course those who say its difficult tend to be overweight smokers.
firecoins said:It consists of a stair climb with a 40lb vest, some sort of arm bicycle, an endurance test of holsing some sort of heavy bar and and lifting and holding another bar using your legs. This is what I have been told.
That seems kind of light for such a huge city FD. I took th PAT for my local dept (town of 30-40k people) last year and it was 20 minutes of pain. I had 30 min to complete and passed in 20. Lots of different tasks from belly crawling in bunker gear through a tunnel to sledge hammer use to lifting to hose unrolling/rolling. It also included following specific written and spoken commands, climbing the ladder truck, etc. The department gave an orientation on the test about 2 weeks prior to the real thing so everyone knew what was coming.....still, over half the group failed. I would expect a city like NY to bump it up a few notches.......I'd like to read a full rundown of the test after it's taken.
EMS and firefighting are separate divisions. FDNY firefighting has a very different test. We are discussing EMS in this thread.