Tony Bonfiglio
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Yeah, what kind of temperature do you guys operate at?
Well, sometimes it's so hot, you know, in the summer when we're out there in like 90 degree weather and you're putting a fire out, it's hot.
You lose so much body water.
Yeah, it's like when you take off your turnout coat and your gear, it's like you fell in a pool.
Have you ever started a fire where you had to pee and by the end you didn't?
That's what I'm talking about.
And then sometimes you're so thirsty.
I mean, there were times I was so thirsty from pulling ceilings and the plaster dust that I actually would, I look up and would take water coming off the drain pipe, just straight into my mouth because I can breathe.
It gets pretty crummy in there.
Yeah, it's shitty.
That's Italian, man.
My whole family's from East Harlem.
You know, we're Italian.