The Boone County Fire Protection District is a high-turnover volunteer fire district with many college-age participants who agree to be on call for about 40 hours a week in exchange for a bunk in a firehouse. Trainees normally go through an extended training before they are qualified for such a position, however during the summer of 2017 enough applicants had time to condense the multi-month part-time training into a one month morning-to-night marathon. I followed two of the trainees through the program writing about, and photographing, them for the Columbia Missourian.