CHICAGO (WGN) - The Chicago Fire Department and the African American Firefighters and Paramedics League hosted its Firefighter For A Day event Saturday to inspire youngsters to the fire service when they grow up.

The event, held at the Quinn Fire Academy in the West Loop, attracted 140 children who got to be a firefighter for a day.

"I always wanted to be a fireman ever since I was a little kid. I even had a fireman toy," potential future firefighter Voshon Figures said.

Kids as young as five years old learned how to make "forced entry" into a burning building, how to survive and how to perform CPR, all in hopes of getting them to consider a career in firefighting.

"This is what we train all of our candidates, so they'll be going through some of the motions that I went through and hund

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