In an attempt to ensure recruits at Davis Technical College’s fire program in Utah were prepared to address a situation where victims are trying to save their children, the video—which was shared to Lieutenant Colin Ward’s TikTok account @thetruckie—shows a baby doll being thrown down to a firefighter who wasn’t able to catch it while My Hero by the Foo Fighters played in the background.

According to Fire Science Online, firefighters can go through training in a few different settings, including in a technical school, a college or a firefighting academy.

“Advancements in the public sector are usually pegged to ranks established on the basis of experience and ongoing training,” the piece stated.

Catching babies is something that first responders must be prepared for, as evidenced by one fire that resulted in a New Jersey man throwing an infant out of a second-floor window to police and firefighters. The infant in that scenario sustained minor injuries, as did the father, who jumped down to officers after. Another man managed to catch a mother’s 1-year-old daughter from a burning building in northeast Dallas.

In Ward’s viral video, which appears to be taken from the second-story window, two firefighters can be seen running in full gear as they carry a ladder toward the structure. Each firefighter holds the ladder in their right hand; the one in front also carrying a pike pole, the one in the rear also carrying a sledgehammer.

“Here’s my baby!” a voice yells and instantly a baby doll is pitched to the first firefighter.

The firefighter drops the front of the ladder and reaches up to try to catch the falling doll, but the doll goes over his hands and to the ground behind him. The failed catch replays in slow motion before cutting to another try.

Again, the firefighters have a load in each hand when the lead firefighter hears, “Here’s my baby!”

But yet again, the firefighter doesn’t catch the baby, and it bounces off the firefighter’s face and shoulder before it falls to the ground. Cue slow-motion replay.

Ward wrote to Newsweek that the recruits in the video participate in training several times each week.

“The evening of my training for this video was on laddering a window and searching for victims,” Ward explained. “They have never been in a situation like this.”

These types of training, he said, help future firefighters prepare for anything.

Ward has served as a career firefighter for 15 years.

“I am a believer in we must be a master of our craft,” he said.

The content Ward shares, he says, is meant to “encourage” others to try the types of training he posts.

Even if some disagree with what is shown in his videos, Ward said he appreciates that it makes others think about training.

Many viewers rushed to the comments section to share their amusement, while some asked questions about the reality of first responders catching people who are escaping from fires.

“Are people throwing their babies off balconies?!” one person asked in disbelief.

Another viewer wrote the video served as a reminder to remain calm if they were in an emergency situation.

“Don’t throw baby they can’t catch,” a TikTok viewer wrote.

Some commented on the firefighters’ catching abilities.

“He reminded me of my 3 year old learning to catch a ball,” one comment read.

Wrote another, “And that’s the day Jake remembered why he couldn’t make it into peewee football and became a firefighter as an adult!”

One viewer shared that they did not consider dropping their child out of the window after experiencing an apartment fire from the second floor, calling the video “educational.”

“[Yeah] hopefully we can get to them before people have to get their kids,” Ward replied. “It happens pretty often victims dropping them down to firefighters or [a] bystander.”