Orange County Fire Authority's Recruit Class 36 is introduced to an elite team of instructors known as the Cadre who will be transforming them into the toughest firefighters over a challenging 18-week training process.
Some of the recruits of Class 36 struggle as they try and master some of the most basic fire skills. After being out for three weeks with injury, recruits Lefebvre and Bennett struggle to catch up to the rest of the class.
Class 36 is exposed to their most difficult challenge yet as they must utilize all of the skills they have learned to work on live fire engulfed inside a tower.
The recruits of Class 36 experience a day in the life of a firefighter. These real-time simulations bring unpredictable conditions and obstacles of what they will encounter in the field and give them a taste of the career they are about to enter.
Recruit Torres reports for duty with a highly contagious infection. The Cadre are forced to shut down the drills grounds and decontaminate the entire academy.