LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Being a first responder can be a stressful but rewarding job.
Often times, the people they work with can become family. However, at the North Las Vegas Fire Department, there is a family that ended up being co-workers.
Mike Tyler has been with the North Las Vegas Fire Department for more than 20 years, and just a few years short of putting up his gear for good, his son Trenton joined the department.
“I still have a dad hat on as far as I have a lot of expectations for him, I want him to do really well,” Mike said.
Trenton, now 23, tells FOX5 that growing up, he remembers being in awe of the fire station when he would come to visit, and of his dad during show-and-tell in school.
He would sometimes sit on his dad’s lap in the fire engine. Fast forward almost two decades, and now Trenton gets to be the one behind the wheel.
“The very first day he worked, we got a fire. I look behind me, I see Engine 55, and there was a little kid getting out of the rig. It was a surreal moment,” Mike said.
Now Mike gets to share a 48-hour shift with his son.
The Tylers tell me this job is not something they take for granted, and that the two of them recently responded to an intense fire.
“I showed up on the rescue. I saw him go in. I saw a smoke-filled house, next thing I know, he brought a victim out of the fire,” Mike said.
“He probably gets a little nervous seeing me going into places, but the people I’m with, he trusts them,” Trenton said.
Now Mike gets to trust that his son Trenton will follow his example.
“Be like him but be a little funnier, cook a little better,” Trenton joked.
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