Oklahoma City area firefighters launch 'Fired Up Outdoors' show

“Fired Up Outdoors” debuts Saturday, June 30, at 3:30 p.m. on KSBI-52 and also will be broadcast on Sunday mornings on TUFF TV. The show will feature the hunting and fishing adventures of firefighters from Oklahoma City, Yukon and Moore and an Oklahoma state trooper.

The title is not only a play on the firefighting theme, it also describes the adrenaline rush the men get from hunting and fishing, said Brian Magee, an Oklahoma City firefighter.

“I am an avid outdoorsman and have spent most of my life with a fishing rod, gun or bow in my hand,” Magee said. “We always get excited to see a deer or turkey in the woods. It's all about the passion and the lifestyle we share.”

The others who make up “Fired Up Outdoors” are Lt. Chris Walls of the Yukon Fire Department, Oklahoma City firefighter Justin Howard, Moore firefighters Bo Cocannouer and Trent Wood, and Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Caleb Swickey.

Two sportsmen from Gillette, Wyo., — Daniel Peak, an oil and gas lease operator, and Nate Cina, a schoolteacher and football coach — also are on the “pro staff” of “Fired Up Outdoors” because they liked their hunting and fishing videos on the Internet and wanted to be a part of it.

“Fired Up Outdoors” began as an Internet show about three years ago. Magee and Walls, friends who have bow hunted together for more than a dozen years, decided to start shooting videos of their hunts.

One would take turns filming while the other would be bow hunting.

“It started as a hobby, just something to show our friends and family,” Magee said.

Neither had any training in shooting and editing video, but they learned on the fly.