Wartgow took EMT classes in Smith Valley, Nevada shortly after graduating high school in 1981. In 1982 he began volunteering with the ambulance service.

In 1991 Wilkening was recruited as the first female member of the Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department in Lovelock, Nevada. She took fire instruction in Fallon, Nevada, and EMT training in Lovelock.

Womack began his EMS training as a fireman trainee in Hawthorne, Nevada in 1981. He later joined the Mineral County Fire Department.

Bounty joined the Boulder City Volunteer Department in Boulder City, Nevada in 1976 and became a professional fireman in 1979.