More than a dozen young women are learning about what it takes to fight fires.
"When you get on a fire ground, if you don't work together and you don't communicate, somebody can get hurt," instructor Julie Harper said.
KMBC's Jere Gish reported that 15 teenagers are getting a lesson in firefighting at Camp Inferno.
"We do a lot of teamwork, physical skills, mental skills, just to show them some strengths that maybe they didn't know they had," Harper said.
"You get a lot of confidence from the things you do here," camper Julie Adkins said.
Gish reported that the teens learn to do things such as work the fire hose.
"You look at it and it looks pretty easy. You're dragging a hose, but the amount of gear they have on and the pressure we have on the hose, they're using some muscles right now," Harper said.
"We yell at each other, but it's a good kind of yelling We're just having a blast," camper Catie Pannell said.
Gish said that it is the second year for Camp Inferno. Some of the teens have come from other states, even from as far away as Sweden for the camp.
"I hope that they learn something about themselves that they didn't know when they came in Sunday," Harper said.
The campers will rappel down the side of a building Wednesday and learn to climb an aerial ladder.
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