VIDEO: Making things is a passion of Greg Blanchat. But instead of making art, he makes fire trucks. Blanchat turned a near tragedy into a passion to save lives.
“When you suit up, when you snap in, you really feel it. Like I say, ‘Fire is a living, breathing thing,’ and I really think it can think too,” said Blanchat.
Roaring flames and billowing smoke were seen from miles around. “We were up on a hill, most of us watching it and looking down on it, and we backed up because it was incredibly hot,” said Stan May, a spectator and retired 30-year firefighter.
It wasn’t a wildfire. It was an experiment.
“It’s amazing he was able to put it out that fast dealing with that kind of heat,” said May. It was performed by Blanchat.
“Paper tells you one thing, live tells you if it really works,” he said.